AN EARLY PLEA_ FOR THE UNION.
[To THE EDITOR or THE " Srsora.roe.."] SIR,—My attention has been directed to a passage in
" Ha.kluyt's Voyages " which may interest those of your readers who are concerned for the maintenance of the Union. The passage I refer to is portion of a poem entitled " The Libel of English Policie exhorting all England to keep the Sea." The poem is divided into sections, and one of them, which treats " of the commodities of Ireland and policie and keeping thereof, and conquering of wild Irish," contains the following solemn admonition:-
" Now here beware and heartily take intent, As yes will answers at last Judgement, That for slought and for raches hede, Yee remember with all your might to hede, To keeps Ireland that it be not lost. For it is a boterasse and a post, Under England and Wales another : God forbid but ech were others brother, Of one ligeance due unto the Xing."
Ballymena, Ireland.
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