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Micah Clarke

CHAPTER XXI
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The reason is, I opine, that each doth wait for his neighbour to make a move.

Should one or two come over the others would soon follow.
How, then, are we to bring a duke or two to our standards ?' 'There's the question, Master Wade,' said Monmouth, shaking his head despondently.
'I think that it might be done,' continued the Whig lawyer.

'Mere proclamations addressed to the commonalty will not catch these gold fish.

They are not to be angled for with a naked hook.

I should recommend that some form of summons or writ be served upon each of them, calling upon them to appear in our camp within a certain date under pain of high treason.' 'There spake the legal mind,' quoth King Monmouth, with a laugh.


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