341 flie Earle of Warwick's grandchild and the Lonl .Falconbridge married his two daughters; such pittifull slaves were the riobles of those dayes. Att last Lambert, perceiving himselfe to have bene all this while deluded with hopes and promises of succession, and seeing that Cromwell now intended to eonfinne the government in his owne famely, fell off from him, but behav'd himselfe very pittifully and meanly, was turned out of all his places, an~! return'd againe to plott new vengeance at his house at Wimbleton, where he fell to dresse his flowers in his garden, and worke at the needle with his wife and his maides, while he was watching an oppertunity to serve_ againe his ambition, which had this difference from the protector's; the one was gallant and grcate, the other had nothing but an unworthy pride, most insolent in prosperity, and as abiect and base in adversity.' 'The cavaliers, seeing their victors thus beyond their hopes falling into their hands, had not patience to stay till things ripen'd of themselves, but were every day forming designes, and plotting for the murder of Cromwell, and other insurrections, which being contriv'd in drinke, and manag'd by false and cowardly fellowes, were still reveal'd to Cromwell, who had most excellent intelligence of all things that past, even in the king's closett; and by these unsuccessfull plotts they were the only obstructors of what they sought to advance, 'while, to speake truth, Cromwell's personall courage and magnanimity upheld him against all enemies and malcontents. His owne armie dislik'd him, and 'once when sevenscorc officers had combin'd to crosse him in something he was persuing, and engag'd one to another, Lambert being the chiefe, with solemne pro1 A life of Lambert has been Yery obligingly put into the hands of the editor, together with some other scarce tracts relating to those times by 11r. 'Vhite, jun. of Lincoln's Inn, who had co1lected them in the north of England, where Lambert res ided . He seems to have enjoyed a better reputation among hi s countrymen: his horticulture is therein much spoken of, and he is said to have ]Jaiflted flowers, not to have embroidered them.
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