as if they were wholly unconcern'd, lie by and look on, whoever is
like to be King, they are like to suffer deeply by the Strife, and
yet neither side has thought fit to consult them about it.

'The conclusion of the whole Matter is in short this, here is
certainly a false Step taken, how it shall be rectify'd is not the
present Business, nor am I Wise enough to Prescribe. One Man may do
in a Moment what all the Lunar World cannot undo in an Age. 'Tis not
be thought the Eagle will be prevail'd on to undo it, nay he has
Sworn not to alter it.

'I am not concern'd to prove the Title of the present King of
Ebronia, no, nor of the Eagles neither; but I think I can never be
answer'd in this, that this Gift of the Eagles to his second Son is
preposterous, inconsistent with all his Claim to the Crown, and the
greatest confirmation of the Title of his Enemy that it was possible
to give, and no doubt the Gallunarians will lay hold of the Argument.

'If this Prince was the Eagle's eldest Son, he might have a Just
Right from the concession of his Father, because the Right being
inherent, he only receiv'd from him an Investiture of Time, but as
this young Gentleman is a second Son he has no more Right, his elder
Brother being alive, than your Grand Seignior, or Czar of Muscovy in
your World.

'Let them Fight then for such a Cause, who valuing only the Pay, make
War a Trade, and Fight for any thing they are bid to Fight for, and
as such value not the Justice of the War, nor trouble their Heads
about Causes and Consequences, so they have their Pay, 'tis well
enough for them.