"it is God's caufe that makes me fo bold, and "no inclination of my own to be fo: and give me leave to tell you, that God is angry with

you, and will never be pleafed untill you have "taken new refolutions concerning your religion, which I pray God to direct you, or elfe "you'll fall from naught to worse, from thence "to nothing."

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King Charles.-My Lord, I cannot fo much "blame as pity your zeal. The foundneffe of Religion is not to be tryed by dint of fword, nor must we judge of her truths by her profperity; for then, of all men Chriftians would be "the most miferable. We are not to be thought cc no followers of Christ, by observations drawn "from what is croffe or otherwise, but by taking

up our croffe and following Christ. Neither "do I remember, my Lord, that I made any "fuch vow before the battaile of Nafeby con"cerning Catholiques; but fome fatisfaction I "did give my Protestant subjects, who, on the "other fide, were perfuaded that God bleft us "the worse for having fo many Papists in our "army."

"Marquifs.-The difference is not great; I pray God forgive you, who have most reason "to afk it."

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King. I think not fo, my Lord."

"Marquifs. Who fhall judge?"

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King. I pray, my Lord, let us fit down,

" and let Reafon take her feat."

"Marquifs. Reason is no judge."

"King.-But fhe may take her place, Mar"quifs, not above our faith."

"Marquifs.-Not above our faith."

SIR THOMAS SOMERSET,

"brother to the Marquis of Worcester, had "a houfe which was called Troy, five miles. "from Ragland Caftle. This Sir Thomas being "a complete Gentleman, delighted much in fine "gardens and orchards, where, by the benefit of

art, the earth was made fo grateful to him at "the fame time that the King (Charles the First) happened to be at his brother's house, that it yielded him wherewithal to fend his brother "Worcester a prefent, and fuch an one as (the

times and the feafons confidered) was able to "make the King believe that the Sovereign of "the Planets had new changed the Poles, and

"that

"that Wales (the refuse and the outcast of the "fair garden of England) had fairer and riper "fruit than England's bowels had on all her "beds. This prefent given to the Marquis he "would not fuffer to be prefented to the King by any hand but his own. In comes, then, "the Marquis at the end of the fupper, led by “the arm, with a flow pace, expressing much

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Spanish gravity, with a filver difh in each hand, "filled with rarities, and a little basket on his "arm as a reserve, where, making his obeyfance, "he thus fpeaks: May it please your Majesty, if

"the four Elements could have been robbed to "have entertained your Majesty, I think I had "but done my duty; but I must do as I may. "If I had fent to Bristol for fome good things "to entertain your Majefty, that would have "been no wonder at all. If I had procured "from London fome goodness that might have " been acceptable to your Majesty, that would "have been no wonder. But here I prefent

you, Sir, (placing his difhes upon the table,) "with that which came not from Lincoln that "was, nor London that is, nor York that is to

be, but from Troy. Whereupon the King "fmiled; and anfwered the Marquis, Truly, my "Lord, I have heard that corn now grows where Troy town food; but I never thought that "there had grown any apricots before. Whereupon the Marquis replied, Any thing to please

your Majefty. When my Lord Marquis departed the prefence, one told him that he "would make a very good Courtier. Remem"ber well, replied the Marquis, that I faid one thing which may give you fome hopes of me: Any thing to please your Majefty.'

Apophthegmes of the EARL OF WORCESTER.

BLANCHE, LADY ARUNDELL,

BARONESS OF WARDOUR.

FORTES creantur fortibus & bonis.
Eft in juvencis, eft in equis patrum
Virtus, nec imbellem feroces
Progenerant aquila columbam;

The offspring of a noble race

Their high-bred Sires can ne'er disgrace;

Valour and worth to them supply'd

With Life's own warm and crimson tide;

The courfer of a gen'rous breed

Still pants for the Olympic mead;
Nor the fierce eagle, bird of Jove,
E'er generates the timid dove;

fays Horace, and Lady Arundell confirms his affertion. The fame courage, the fame spirit, which her father the Earl of Worcester exhibited in the defence of his Castle of Ragland, this excellent

cellent woman displayed at the fiege of Wardour Caftle. The account of the noble defence she made against her favage and unprincipled befiegers, is told in the "Mercurius Rufticus," a kind of Newspaper of those times in which it was written; and which, in the narrative of the behaviour of the Parliamentary Generals, ferocious and infolent as it is, will recall, for the honour of the country where it happened, but imperfectly perhaps to the mind of the reader, the scenes of ravage, desolation, and murder, that have taken place in a neighbouring Nation; which, not fatiffied with the deftruction of its old corrupt Government, has raised upon the ruins of it a fyftem of tyranny and of rapine without example in the annals of the world.

EXTRACT FROM MERCURIUS RUSTICUS.

"On Tuesday the second of May 1643, Sir "Edward Hungerford, a Chief Commander of "the rebels in Wiltshire, came with his forces "before Wardour Caftle in the fame county,

being the manfion-house of the Lord Arundell "of Wardour. But finding the caftle ftrong, "and those that were in it refolute not to yield "it up unless by force, called Colonel Strode to "his help. Both thefe joined in one made a