'From this circumstance of the Man with the Lip, 'twas not irrational
to expect that he might be induc'd to make a separate Peace with the
Gallunarians, and serve them as he did once the Prince of Berlindia
at the Treaty of Peace in a former War, where he deserted him after
the solemnest Engagements never to make Peace without him; but his
pressing Occasions requiring it, concluded a Peace without him, and
left him to come out of the War, as well as he could, tho' he had
come into it only for his Assistance. Now finding him in danger of
being ruin'd by the Gallunarian Power, and judging from former
Practice in like Cases, that he might be hurry'd into a Peace, and
leave them in the Lurch; they have drawn him into this Labrinth, as
into a Step, which can never be receded from without the utmost
Affront and Disgrace, either to the Family of the Gallunarian, or of
the Lip; an Action which in its own Nature, is a Defiance of the
whole Gallunarian Power, and without any other Manifesto, may be
taken as a Declaration from the House of the Lip, to the Gallunarian,
that this War shall never end, till one of those two Families are
ruin'd and reduc'd.

'What Condition the Prince with the Lip's Power is in, to make such a
huff at this Time, shall come under Examination by and by; in the
mean time the Solunarians have clench'd the Nail, and secur'd the War
to last as long as they think convenient.

'If the Gallunarians should get the better, and reduce the Man with
the Lip to Terms never so disadvantageous, he cannot now make a Peace
without leave from the Solunarians and the Mogenites, least his Son
should be ruin'd also.----- Or if he should make Articles for
himself, it must be with ten times the Dishonour that he might have