4rz9 band, and the blood-hound Cressett met her at the gate, and led her to her husband, and left her all the day alone with him, which they had never before done all the time of his prison; and in the evening Sr. John Robinson sent for her, and partly expostulated with her and partly flatter'd, and told her her husband had bene sent to the Isle of Man, m but that he in kindnesse had procur'd a better place for him, and that he was not covetous, but since her husband would not pay him fees, he might use his pleasure, and she and his children and relations might fre ely goe to him. She recei v'd this as befitted her, being in his hands, and knowing, that not good nature, but feare she would have printed him, moov'd him to this geHtler course, as she understood, both by the enquiries his servants made of the collonell's warder concerning her intentions, and by Robinson's continuing, notwithstanding all this dissimulation, to make a thousand false insinuations of the collonell every where, and to do him all ill offices at court; if there were not a more abominable wickednesse then all this, a lingering poyson given him, which though wee had not wickednesse enough to suspect then, the events that have, since ensued make a liLtlc cloubtfull . It is certaine that Cressett did make that a ttemp t upon Sr. Hen ry Vane and others, and two or three dayes before the collonell was sent away, brought into his chamber, when he came to lock him up at night, a bottle of excellent wine, under pretence of kinclnesse, which he, the colloncll, and the warder drunke together, and the warder and the collonell both died within fourc months; the collonell presently after falling sick, m An ex ile, for the second time, to the Isle of :Man is mentioned. Had the colonel, or his fi·iends, been properly informed, they would not have wished to exchange it fOr the Hat coast of Kent. In our times, when it ha.3 become the retreat of the gay and imprudent, it must seem strange to hear it spoken of as a spot to be di·eaJed. Had he Uecn sen t there he would very likely have lived to see the downfal of hi s enem ies, and have returned to sbine in the autumn ·of life as an evening sun , whtm his virtues would have beeo recognized and revered.
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