Think you, then, I can rest content with a miserable company of horse when plunder is forbidden, and even our beggarly pay doubtful?
Whilst, should things go ill--as well they may, faith, with an army ruled by parsons--the wage will be a swift death on field or gallows, or a lingering one in the plantations, as fell to the lot of those poor wretches Noll drove into England after Dunbar.

Soul of my body, it is not thus that I had looked to fare when I took service at Perth.

I had looked for plunder, rich and plentiful plunder, according to the usages of warfare, as a fitting reward for a toilsome march and the perils gone through.
"Thus I know war, and for this have I followed the trade these twenty years.

Instead, we have thirty thousand men, marching to battle as prim and orderly as a parcel of acolytes in a Corpus-Christi procession.
'Twas not so bad in Scotland haply because the country holds naught a man may profitably plunder--but since we have crossed the Border, 'slife, they'll hang you if you steal so much as a kiss from a wench in passing." "Why, true," laughed Crispin, "the Second Charles hath an over-tender stomach.

He will not allow that we are marching through an enemy's country; he insists that England is his kingdom, forgetting that he has yet to conquer it, and--" "Was it not also his father's kingdom ?" broke in the impetuous Hogan.
"Yet times are sorely changed since we followed the fortunes of the Martyr.