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Alibey1917 Posted 6 years ago
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Near unto them adjoining

"Verstegen revealed that he was fully aware of Walsingham’s and Harborne’s attempts to draw the Ottomans into acloser military alliance during the previous decade, warning his readers, ‘the great Turk and his consorts, may be by the English excited to invade some parts of Christendom, near unto them adjoining (as already upon such persuasion they have attempted) but good unto England they can do none albeit the English would exchange their Geneva Bible for the Turkish Alcoran, because their situations are so far distant’." (Jerry Brotton, This Orient Isle- Elizabethan England and the Islamic World) Can you parse and paraphrase the emphasized part generally?
  

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The Great Turk and his court might well be induced by the English (may be by the English excited) to invade certain areas of Christendom on their borders (some parts of Christendom, near unto them adjoining), as they already have before under English inducement (as already upon such persuasion they have attempted), but they cannot help England directly (good unto England they can do none) even if the English went so far as to exchange their Geneva Bible for the Turkish Koran (albeit the English would exchange their Geneva Bible for the Turkish Alcoran—in other words, turn Moslem) because their two countries are so far away from each other (because their situations are so far distant).

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  • The Great Turk and his court might well be induced by the English (may be by the English excited) to invade certain areas of Christendom on their borders (some parts of Christendom, near unto them adjoining), as they already have before under English inducement (as already upon such persuasion they have attempted), but they cannot help England directly (good unto England they can do none) even if the English went so far as to exchange their Geneva Bible for the Turkish Koran (albeit the English would exchange their Geneva Bible for the Turkish Alcoran—in other words, turn Moslem) because their two countries are so far away from each other (because their situations are so far distant).
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The Great Turk and his court might well be induced by the English (may be by the English excited) to invade certain areas of Christendom on their borders (some parts of Christendom, near unto them adjoining), as they already have before under English inducement (as already upon such persuasion they have attempted), but they cannot help England directly (good unto England they can do none) even

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