The generall Observation of the Beasts.
The Wildernesse is a cleere resemblance of the world, where greedie and furious men persecute and devoure the harmlesse and in∣nocent as the wilde beasts pursue and devoure the Hinds and Roes.
A key into the language of America, or, An help to the language of the natives in that part of America called New-England together with briefe observations of the customes, manners and worships, &c. of the aforesaid natives, in peace and warre, in life and death : on all which are added spirituall observations, generall and particular, by the authour ... / by Roger Williams ...
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- A key into the language of America, or, An help to the language of the natives in that part of America called New-England together with briefe observations of the customes, manners and worships, &c. of the aforesaid natives, in peace and warre, in life and death : on all which are added spirituall observations, generall and particular, by the authour ... / by Roger Williams ...
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- Williams, Roger, 1604?-1683.
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- London :: Printed by Gregory Dexter,
- 1643.
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- Narragansett Indians.
- Narragansett language.
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"A key into the language of America, or, An help to the language of the natives in that part of America called New-England together with briefe observations of the customes, manners and worships, &c. of the aforesaid natives, in peace and warre, in life and death : on all which are added spirituall observations, generall and particular, by the authour ... / by Roger Williams ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A66450.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 18, 2024.
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More particular.
The Indians, Wolves, yea, Dogs and Swine,Line 1
I have knowne the Deere devoure,
Gods children are sweet prey to all;
But yet the end proves sowre.
For though Gods children lose their lives,Line 2
They shall not loose an haire;
But shall arise, and judge all those,
That now thier Iudges are.
New-England's wilde beasts are not fierce,Line 3
As other wild beasts are:
Some men are not so fierce, and yet
From mildnesse are they farre.