done before.

'Politicians say, 'tis never good for a Prince to put himself into a
case of Desperation. This is drawing the Sword, and throwing away the
Scabbard; if a Disaster should befal him, his Retreat is impossible,
and this must have been done only to secure the Man with the Lip from
being hufft, or frighted into a separate Peace.

'The second Reason People here give, why the Solunarians are
concerning themselves in this Matter, is drawn from Trade.

'The continuing of Ebronia in the Hands of the Gallunarians, will
most certainly be the Destruction of the Solunarian and Mogenites
Trade, both to that Kingdom, and the whole Seas on that side of the
Moon; as this Article includes a fifth Part of all the Trade of the
Moon, and would in Conjunction with the Gallunarians at last bring
the Mastership of the Sea, out of the Hands of the other, so it would
in effect be more detriment to those two Nations, than ten Kingdoms
lost, if they had them to part with.

'This the Solunarians foreseeing, and being extremely sensible of the
entire Ruin of their Trade, have left no Stone unturn'd to bring this
piece of Pageantry on the Stage, by which they have hook'd in the Old
Black Eagle to plunge himself over Head and Ears in the Quarrel, in
such a manner, as he can never go back with any tolerable Honour; he
can never quit his Son and the Crown of Ebronia, without the greatest
Reproach and Disgrace of all the World in the Moon.

'Now whether one, or both of these Reasons are true in this Case, as
most believe both of them to be true; the Policy of my Country-men,