395 highly offended a£ their insolence, and to mutter strange words ; whither it were this, or what elce wee k!'ww not, but their designe proceeded no further; yelt there is nothing more certeiue then tha t at that time they had a designe of rising generally all over England m arms. But the collonell liv'd so retir'd , that he never understood how it was taken up, and how it fell of, yelt although they would not take the allarum from him, even the gentlemen of the county afterwards believ'd they were hatching some mischiefe and fear'd it. The collonell continued his usual! retirednesse all that winter, and the next summer, , about the end of which he dreamt one night that he saw certeine men in a boate upon the T hames, labouring against wind and tide, to bring their boate, which stuck in th_c sands, to shore; att which he, being in the boate, was angrie with them.,. and told them they toyl'd in vuine, and would neYcr effect theit· purpose; but, say'd he, lett it alone and lett me try; whereupon he lay'd him downe in the boate, and applying his bres t to the head of it, gently shoov'd it along, till he came to land on Southworke side, and there, going out of the boate, walk'd in the most pleasant lovely fields, so grecne and flourishing, and so embeilisht with the cheerefull sunne that shone upon them, as he never saw aniething soe delightfull, and there he melt his father, who. gave him certeine leaves of Jawrell which had many words written in them which be could not read. The colloncll was never superstitious of dreams, but this stuck a little in his mind, and we were· therefore seeking application.s of it, which proov'cl nothing in the event, but that having afforded one. I know not whither the drcame migl•t not be inspir'd. The boale represen ting the commom,·calth, which several! unquiet people sought to enfranchise,. by vainc en-. cleavours, against wind and tide, parellclling the plolts and designes some i mpatient people then carried on without strength, or councell, or unity among themselves; his ly ing downc and shooving it with. h is breast, might sigp ify the ndvancemcnt of the canse by tl:e pa.
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