D. Does he Triumph over your Majefty, our

Lord and Sovereign ? give us but your Order, and we will go and pull him and all his Generation in pieces i for to triumph over you who are his elder Brother, is a horrid Rebellion and Treafon, and he ought to be expell'd the Society of Man kind.
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Cain. I think fo too, indeed > however, iny dear Children and faithful Subjects, tho' I accept your Offer of Duty and Service, yet I will confider very well, before I take up Arms againftmy Bro ther 5 befides, our Sovereign Father and patri archal Lord, Adam, being yet alive, it is not in my t- Right to aft offenfively without his Command.
. D. We are ready therefore to carry your Pe tition to him, and doubt not to obtain his Licence and Commiflion too, to empower you to do your felf Juftice upon your younger Brother j who being your Vaflal, or at lead inferior, as he is junior in Birth, infults you upon the fancied Opinion of having a larger Share in the Divine Favour, and receiving a Bleffing on his Sacri^ frees, on Pretence of the fame Favour being de nied you.
Cain. I am content, go then, and give a juft Account of the State of our Affairs.