Is not the tide upon the turn?
Can the usurper hope to hold his own?
Will his men stand by him?
Within a month or less I shall see ye all gathered round me at Westminster, and no duty will then be so pleasing to me as to see that ye are all, from the highest to the lowest, rewarded for your loyalty to your monarch in this the hour of his darkness and his danger.' A murmur of thanks rose up from the courtiers at this gracious speech, but the German plucked at Saxon's sleeve and whispered, 'He hath his warm fit upon him.

You shall see him cold anon.' 'Fifteen hundred men have joined me here where I did but expect a thousand at the most,' the King continued.

'If we had high hopes when we landed at Lyme Cobb with eighty at our back, what should we think now when we find ourselves in the chief city of Somerset with eight thousand brave men around us?
'Tis but one other affair like that at Axminster, and my uncle's power will go down like a house of cards.

But gather round the table, gentlemen, and we shall discuss matters in due form.' 'There is yet a scrap of paper which you have not read, sire,' said Wade, picking up a little slip which had been enclosed in the note.
'It is a rhyming catch or the posy of a ring,' said Monmouth, glancing at it.

'What are we to make of this?
"When thy star is in trine, Between darkness and shine, Duke Monmouth, Duke Monmouth, Beware of the Rhine!" Thy star in trine! What tomfoolery is this ?' 'If it please your Majesty,' said I, 'I have reason to believe that the man who sent you this message is one of those who are deeply skilled in the arts of divination, and who pretend from the motions of the celestial bodies to foretell the fates of men.' 'This gentleman is right, sir,' remarked Lord Grey.