human
And what if my Lord Baltimore will not hear me, or hearing will not believe?
gpt
Give to him this ring, replied the other, drawing reluctantly from his left hand a gold circlet set with a stone bearing a coat-of-arms.
human
Bid him remember the promise made to this ring's owner one summer night in a Kentish orchard. Bid him also recall the words of King Henry the Sixth upon Southwark Bridge, hard by Saint Mary Overies, to his ancestor the keeper of the privy seal, and to mine the sheriff of Kent.
gpt
Think you that our plans shall prosper?
human
Have no doubt. Believe that already we have succeeded. Persuade yourself that the French are driven out of their fastnesses, and the land from Acadia to Hochelaga gives allegiance to King Charles. As a man wills so shall it be. And yet be cautious.
gpt
Should I not bid them attack Acadia first? It is but a small colony, and open to the water they say.
human
Nay, said the other.
gpt
Let us fight with our faces to the sea. How shall it profit us to drive our enemy inland and disperse them as a swarm of flies which rises and settles in another spot? We must drive them eastward to the sea, where they shall either conquer or die. I pray you guard that ring.