These countries, having been anciently distinct and hostile kingdoms,
came by Morpheus the Marpesian, who succeeded by hereditary right to the
crown of Oceana, not only to be joined under one head, but to be cast,
as it were by a charm, into that profound sleep, which, broken at length
by the trumpet of civil war, has produced those effects that have given
occasion to the preceding discourse, divided into four parts.
End of Project Gutenberg’s The Commonwealth of Oceana, by James Harrington
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