400 TRANSLATIONS OF the joining of battle avail you any thing ; nor will your intreaties be heard or regarded. Take warning therefore by others, and surrender entirely to us, before the veil be taken off, and [Jhe punishment qf~] sin light upon you. For we shall have no mercy upon him that complains, nor be moved by him that weeps. We have wasted countries, we have destroyed men, we have made children orphans, and the land desolate. It is your business to run away ; ours to pursue ; nor can you escape our swords, nor fly from our arrows. Our horses are racers ; our arrows strike home ; our swords pierce like lightning ; our fortifications are like mountains, and our numbers like the sand. Whosoever surrenders comes off safe : whosoever is for war, repents it. If you will obey our command, and come to our terms, your interest and ours shall be the same ; but if you be refractory and persist in your error, blame not us, but yourselves. God is against you, ye wicked wretches : look out for something to screen you under your miseries, and find somebody to bear you company in your affliction. We have given you fair warning, and fair warning is fair play. You have eaten things forbidden ', you have been perfidious in your treaties. You have introduced new heresies, and thought it a gallant thing to commit sodomy. Prepare yourselves therefore for ' The Muhaniedans, whose religion is a compound of Judaiism and Christianity, have borrowed many customs from either, they abstain like the Jews from swine's flesh, 5?c.