"Fame, if not doubled-faced, is double-mouthed; And with contrary blast proclaims great deeds On both his wings-; one black the other white." Samson Agonistes.-MILTON. "And so-the Lord prosper the work of their hands who stand for God and King Charles !" " His Declaration PRINCE RUPERT. WE now bid adieu to politics: for good or ill, like Sir Edmund Varney, we are enlisted with the Cavaliers and must take the consequences. The sword is drawn, the scabbard, not thrown away, but lost or hidden under a mountain of angry controversies. Henceforward, like the combatants, we shall be too much occupied in the field to think of ab- VOL. II. B Table of Contents CHAPTER I; THE DRAWN BATTLE; MAN<EUVRES OF THE HOSTILE ARMIES- BATTLE OF EDGEHILL- COURT; AT OXFORD - SKIRMISHES - ADVANCE ON LONDON - BATTLE OF BRENTFORD; - AFFAIRS AT COLEBROOK, WINDSOR, AND BRENTFORD - CLOSE O~'; THE YEAR; CHAPTER II; THE QUEEN ARRIVES-THE WAR GROWS HOT; RUPERT TAKES CIRENCESTER - ESSEX OUTMAN...

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