But this is no prudential concession, no softening down in anticipation that the passage might be produced against him.

Of that state of mind, of any fear of consequences whatever, there is not a trace throughout the recast of his pamphlet.

He is defying and daring the worst, and has thrown in already every possible addition of matter of insult to the coming Charles.

He omits the passage about Coniah precisely because its application to Charles is unfortunately no longer possible; and the peroration for the rest is modified by the sorrow that so it should be.

He will exhort against the Restoration to his latest breath; but he is looking across the Restoration now, and sending his words on to an unknown posterity.
"What I have spoken is the language of that which is not called amiss _The Good Old Cause_: if it seem strange to any, it will not seem more strange, I hope, than convincing to backsliders.