'How ridiculous will this poor Young Gentleman look, if at last he
should be forc'd to come Home again without his Kingdom? what a King
of Clouts will he pass for, and what will this King-making old
Gentlemen, his Father say, when the young Hero shall tell him, your
Majesty has made me Mock King for all the World to laugh at.

''Twas certainly the weakest Thing that could be, for the Eagle thus
to make him a King of that, which, were the probability greater than
it is, he may easily, without the help of a Miracle, be disappointed
of.

''Tis true, the Confederates talk big, and have lately had a great
Victory, and if Talk will beat the King of Ebronia out of his
Kingdom, he is certainly undone, but we do not find the Gallunarians
part with any thing they can keep, nor that they quit any thing
without Blows; It must cost a great deal of Blood and Treasure before
this War can be ended; if absolute Conquest on one side must be the
Matter, and if the Design on Ebronia should miscarry, as one Voyage
thither has done already, where are we then? Let any Man but look
back, and consider what a sorry Figure your Confederate Fleet in your
World had made, after their Andalusian Expedition, if they had not
more by Fate than Conduct, chopt upon a Booty at Vigo as they came
back.

'In the like condition, will this new King come back, if he should go
for a Kingdom and should not Catch, as the French Man call'd it. 'Tis
in the Sense of the probability of this miscarriage, that most Men
wonder at these unaccountable Measures, and think the Eagles Councils
look a little Wildish, as if some of his great Men were grown