We can hold our own amongst hedgerows or in broken country, but what chance could we have in the middle of Salisbury Plain?
With the dragoons round us we should be like a flock of sheep amid a pack of wolves.

Again, every step which we take towards London removes us from our natural vantage ground, and from the fertile country which supplies our necessities, while it strengthens our enemy by shortening the distance he has to convey his troops and his victuals.
Unless, therefore, we hear of some great outbreak elsewhere, or of some general movement in London in our favour, we would do best to hold our ground and wait an attack.' 'You argue shrewdly and well, my Lord Grey,' said the King.

'But how long are we to wait for this outbreak which never comes, and for this support which is ever promised and never provided?
We have now been seven long days in England, and during that time of all the House of Commons no single man hath come over to us, and of the lords none gave my Lord Grey, who was himself an exile.

Not a baron or an earl, and only one baronet, hath taken up arms for me.

Where are the men whom Danvers and Wildman promised me from London?
Where are the brisk boys of the City who were said to be longing for me?
Where are the breakings out from Berwick to Portland which they foretold?
Not a man hath moved save only these good peasants.