the phrase all is fair in love and war came from saintonge war.
where did the phrase all is fair in love and war come from?
saintonge war
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on the 13th, the countermeasures proposed only increase his fears and make him decide to take his family and capital to safety: "no sooner up but hear the sad newes confirmed of the royall charles being taken by them, and now in fitting by them – which pett should have carried up higher by our several orders, and deserves, therefore, to be hanged for not doing it – and turning several others; and that another fleete is come up into the hope. upon which newes the king and duke of york have been below [london bridge] since four o'clock in the morning, to command the sinking of ships at barking-creeke, and other places, to stop their coming up higher: which put me into such a fear, that i presently resolved of my father's and wife's going into the country; and, at two hours' warning, they did go by the coach this day, with about £1300 in gold in their night-bag." the entire city is in a state of panic: "(...)never were people so dejected as they are in the city all over at this day; and do talk most loudly, even treason; as, that we are bought and sold — that we are betrayed by the papists, and others, about the king; cry out that the office of the ordnance hath been so backward as no powder to have been at chatham nor upnor castle till such a time, and the carriages all broken; that legg is a papist; that upnor, the old good castle built by queen elizabeth, should be lately slighted; that the ships at chatham should not be carried up higher. they look upon us as lost, and remove their families and rich goods in the city; and do think verily that the french, being come down with his army to dunkirke, it is to invade us, and that we shall be invaded." then even worse news is brought: "late at night comes mr. hudson, the cooper, my neighbour, and tells me that he come from chatham this evening at five o'clock, and saw this afternoon "the royal james," "oake," and "london," burnt by the enemy with their fire-ships: that two or three men-of-war come up with them, and made no more of upnor castle's shooting, than of a fly(...)."
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