PaxVobis. Peace be unto you.
Pax Romana.Where they made a desolation they called Burke it a peace.What absolutenonsense! It was a nasty, vulgar sort of civilization, only dignified by being hidden under a lot of declensions.
I ain't complainingit's a duty laid down upon us by Godbut the Pax Britannia takes a bit of keeping upwith 'arf the world full of savages and 'arf the other 'arf just getting in the way.
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