Hi1oryofthePuritans, examin'd. 4z 7 ' Which Difcourfe, how inoffenfive foever, and without Exception at any other Time or Place, Truth is not at all Times feafonable, nor fafe to be fpoken, as by our Author's Example was e- ' videnced. For thofe captious Perfons, with whom he held dfcourfe, being full of Jealousy, and apt to wreft his Words to the worft Senfe, they with- ' drew a little, and at their Return, cold him plain- ' ly, they were diil'atisfied at what he had laid. ' He defired them to instance wherein ; they re- ' plied, in all Particulars : which, when he began to repeat, for his own fatisfa6tion, and their bet- ' ter underftanding , they interrupted him, and told him, in plain Terms, they could not fuffer his Attendance any longer about the King. With which Proceedings, and Difmifs, without ac- quainting him with the Occafion, 'twas ill-refen- ' ted by the King, who had Harrington in good efteem, looking upon him as a Gentleman quali- fied with fpecial Parts, and having found him trufty, his Service was more acceptable. Yet ' blamed him nevertheless, for not being more wary amongft Men, that were at fuch a Time full of Jealoufies, and very little obliging to his Majefty. Being thus difmilt, and Herbert only ' left to attend the King in his Chamber, I think he ' was never admitted again, when theKing was after- ' wards conveyed toWindfor, and fo to St. James's. ' However, he was with him on the Scaffold, when he fuffer'd Death, and receiv'd a Pledge of his Majefty's Affection. From that time, always, ' even when Oliver reign'd, he would fpeak of ' the faid King, with the greatest Zeal and Pafí'ion imaginable, and would often fay to his Compa- ' nions, That his Death gave him fo great Grief, ' that he contraEed a Difeafe by it, and that never any thing went more near him, than the Death ' of that molt wife and pious Prince.' E e There
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