Omake 2
“Protector Cromwell of England is displeased with what he is calling the ‘acts of piracy on the high seas’ of the Duke of Kurland. How shall I reply to that, Jurij?” asked Jeremi.
“Tell him that you are amazed that an Englishman, whose great queen, Elizabeth Tudor, declared slavery to be abhorrent to an Englishman, should permit his captains to sail with cargoes of slaves. Tell him that we are bound in our duty to God to release any such captives from durance vile, and treat those who carry such as the criminals they truly are, even if sailing feloniously under the colours of England. Tell him that the Pit of Gomorrah, otherwise known as Jamaica, is forfeit to the Rzeczpospolita for the unnatural practices which abound there, flaunting the laws of God and consequently being a blight upon the hitherto unsullied name of England.”
“We don’t want to warn him we plan to seize Jamaica.”
“Kurland already took it; I have his dispatches here. He’s invested a number of szlachcice amongst the former slaves. One Józef Cudjoe has been elected by his fellows to represent Jamaica in the Sejm.”
“You just enjoy sounding sanctimonious to as narrow-minded a protestant as Cromwell,” laughed Jeremi.
“I do, indeed,” said Jurko.
bah haha, sanctimonious to Cromwell!
ReplyDeletehe does rather ask for it... Britain was goin g through the same sort of leadership crisis both we and America have at the moment - neither choice worth three grosze.
DeleteI think that laws and rules are flouted, while finery is flaunted.
ReplyDeleteTrust that you are feeling better & over the mozzie attacks.
Barbara
Lay by your pleading, law lies a-bleeding
DeleteBurn all your studies down, and throw away your reading
Small power the word has, and can afford us
Not half so much privilege as the sword does
[Dominion of the sword, Civil War era song]
thank you, I am still sleepy and shivery but much better