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The Lord Henry Cromvvels speech in the House.
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Cromwell, Henry, 1628-1674.
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Wing L3047A; Thomason E1001_15; ESTC R207849
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breed The Anabaptists 't is true told me that the Saints should inherit the Earth and that I was a man of sin and therefore must down I like an unbeliever as I was told them that Christs Kingdome was not of this World but they replyed Nay verily but it was and now I plainly find who was in the wrong But my comfort is my Brother was as much mistaken For the Ministers told him that Nimrod was a greater Hunter and yee know he was a very great Monarch now thought he I am a very great Hunter therefore I must be a very great Monarch but he was cleerly mistaken and it appears that there was a lying Spirit in the mouths of his Prophets But Lord what a coil the women keep at home My Mother instead of welcomming me home cry'd out Oh yee base bastardly Coward have you not done finely thus to make your self and me the soorn of Nations Oh pittiful Brothers cries my Sister Rich I might have married another Lord but for you that have undone me and all your Family And indeed they made such a din in my ears with bewayling the losse of their Lady-Rockers gilt Coaches gentlemen Ushers hundred pound Whisks and such kind of worldly trinkets that I was almost maz'd with the noise But said I to my Mother Peace Mother peace why cannot you be content to retire from greatnesse to a private life as well as Dioclesian Charls the fifth and my Brother and I To my Sister Rich quoth I Pray take not so much pepper in the nose your condition does not require it Have you forgot all the godly Sermons of Mr. Sterry and Mr. Lockier concerning the worlds vanity At this they cryed out all together Give us our Honours or else we die But I hope Gentlemen you will stop their mouths since I cannot My Mother thought to have kept a Court at Soerset-house But you have done well to sell it that so that great Temptation may be taken out of her sight yet truly Gentlemen I can tell yee they bring a very good excuse for their Pride For they say that God was angry with the Children of Israel for seeking to return to their Garlick and Onions and they are loath to be guilty of that Sin Now Gentlemen that I may wind up my bottom though I think there be here among you some who have been of the trade that can do it better than I can First I shall speak to you by way of Consolation to assure you of Ireland for as Fleetwood Desborough and Sydenham snuffed out Britains great Christmas Candle which was my Brother even so did Miles Corbet Coot and the rest of the privy Councel extinguish the flaming Torch of Ireland which was my self They say there are Comets I think we were Comets for we made a great blaze in the World for a time but the matter that fed us dying we â—oon vanished Truly Gentlemen I left Ireland quiet and there 's good reason for it for who do you think will hazard themselves for two such drones as my Brother and I Next I shall speak to you by way of Exhortation that is to exhort yee and I shall desire you to take a Fools Counsel as the Proverb is for once that is to sit here as long as you can 't is a sweet thing to ride upon the shoulders of a Nation To this end take heed of your good friend Mr. Lambert for it concerns you being the end of a Parliament to have a care of comming under the lash give your Friends life hang up your Enemies grow rich and let your obedient Servant goe home into the Country Where I like Hermite poor in pensive place obscure Do mean to spend my dayes of endlesse doubt To wayl such woes as time cannot recure Where none but you shall ever find me out And at my Gates despair shall linger still To let in death when you shall please â—o kill FINIS