Dudley: That this ship-Frindship was not sett out nor intended for y e joynt partnership of y e plantation, but for y e perticuler accounte of M r .
— from Bradford's History of 'Plimoth Plantation' From the Original Manuscript. With a Report of the Proceedings Incident to the Return of the Manuscript to Massachusetts by William Bradford
The ducs d'Orléans and Vendôme were addicted to infamous debauchery; the Duc d'Antin was caught, flagrante delicto , in theft; drunkenness and gambling were prevalent at court, the Grand Prieur de Vendôme boasted that he had not gone to bed sober one night in forty years.
— from Paris from the Earliest Period to the Present Day; Volume 1 by William Walton
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