Who knows?
Others have done it, and why not I!' 'Of our three from Havant,' I remarked, 'one is spurred onwards by ambition, and one by love.

Now, what am I to do who care neither for high office nor for the face of a maid?
What is to carry me into the fight ?' 'Our motives come and go, but yours is ever with you,' said Reuben.
'Honour and duty are the two stars, Micah, by which you have ever steered your course.' 'Faith, Mistress Ruth has taught you to make pretty speeches,' said I, 'but methinks she ought to be here amid the beauty of Taunton.' As I spoke we were riding into the market-place, which was now crowded with our troops.

Round the cross were grouped a score of maidens clad in white muslin dresses with blue scarfs around their waists.

As the King approached, these little maids, with much pretty nervousness, advanced to meet him, and handed him a banner which they had worked for him, and also a dainty gold-clasped Bible.

Monmouth handed the flag to one of his captains, but he raised the book above his head, exclaiming that he had come there to defend the truths contained within it, at which the cheerings and acclamations broke forth with redoubled vigour.