336 when newes met him upon the roade, neere London, that Cramwell had broken the parliament. Notwithstanding he went on and found divers of the members there, resolv'd to submit to this ·provide~ce of God, and to waite till he should cleare their integritie, and to disproove these people who had tax'd ' them of ambition, by sitting still, when they had friends enough in the armie, city, and c;ountry, to have disputed the matter, and probably vanquisht these usurpers. They thought that if they should vex the land by warre among themselves, the late subdued enemies, royallists and presbilerians, would have an oppertunity to prevaile on their dissensions, to the ruine of both: if these should govern well, and righteously, and moderately, they should enioy the benefitt of their good government, and not envy them the honorable toyle; if they did otherwise, they should be. ready to assist and vindicate their opprest countrie, when the ungratefull pe<;>ple were made sensible of their true champions and protectors. Coil. Hutchinson, in .his owne particular, was very glad of this release from that employment, which he manag'd with fidelity and uprightnesse, but not only without delight, but with a greate deale of trotible and expence, in the contest f~r truth and righteousnesse upon a!'l occasions. The only recreation he had during his residence at London was in seeking out all the rare artists he could heare of, and in considerinS'on's planting was valued at many thousand ponuds! The Editor could only retire repeating Virgil 's first ~clogue: ?\Tos patrit£jines, nos dulcia linquismes arva. Impius luec tam culta novalia miles habebit tt ] )arbarus has segctes't En quo discordia cives Perclu:rit miseros! en queis consevimus a.gros. llonnd the wide world in banishment we roam, T'orc'd from our pleasing field s and native home: Did we for theie barbarians plant .and sow, On these, on these our happy field~ bestow? Good heav'ns! what dire effects from civil discord flow! DRY DEN.
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