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JOHN OF ENGLAND.

CHAPTER I.

THANET IN THE REIGN OF JOHN.

The posts come tiring on,

And not a man of them brings other news
Than they have learned of me.

SHAKSPERE.

Every minute now

Should be the father of some stratagem.

The times are wild,-contention, like a horse
Full of high feeding, madly hath broke loose,
And bears down all before him.

IBID.

It is our purpose to commence the present tale in and around a portion of merrie England, which we conceive to be a familiar spot to the

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