“As honest as the skin between his brows.”
Shakespeare.
“Le Second Protecteur R. C. n'ayant pas les qualities du
premier, ne pouvait en avoir la fortune. Son Sceptre, n'etait
point sontenue par l'Epee; et n'ayant ni l'intrepidite ni
l'hypocrysie d'Olivier, il ne scut ni se faire craindre de
l'Armeé, ni imposer aux parties, et aux sectes qui divisaient
l'Angleterre.”
Voltaire.
“Old Noll is marching off;
“And Dick, his heir apparent,
“Succeeds him in the Goverment;
“A very lame Vicegerent.
“He'll reign but little time, poor tool
“But sinks beneath the State.
“That will not fail to ride the fool
“'Bove common horseman's weight.”
Butler's Vicar of Bray.
“I positively forbid,” said Richard, to one of his adherents
who pressed him to exert more vigour against the Royalists,
“I positively forbid shedding the blood of a single man in
my cause; I would rather relinquish the post I hold, than
proceed to such unwarrantable extremities; I wish to retain
my situation no longer than shall be consistent with
the public good, and the wishes of those I govern.”
Lounger's Common Place Book.
RICHARD CROMWELL,
PROTECTOR.
This gentleman sat not two years in the chair,
And we don't hear of much he effected while there;
For Lambert and Fleetwood, and Parliament long,
With the army, reduced all his pow'r to a song.
So he said he was willing to go or to stay,
If they'd pension his life, and his creditors pay.
Next Monk took the changeable symbols of pow'r,
And sent Messrs Lambfrt and Co. to the Tow'r.
Invited the King, who in splendor came over,
And recognized loyalty once more at Dover;
To London escorted, a grand coronation
Ensued, while the toast drank throughout the whole nation,
Was “down with the Rumps, and long live Restoration.”
