If he break his word to his people, is it a sufficient defence that he keeps it to his companions?
If he oppress and extort all day, shall he be held blameless because he prayeth at night and morning?
If he be insatiable in plunder and revenge, shall we pass it by because in meat and drink he is temperate?
If he have lived like a tyrant, shall all be forgotten because he hath died like a martyr?
"He was a man, as I think, who had so much semblance of virtues as might make his vices most dangerous.

He was not a tyrant after our wonted English model.

The second Richard, the second and fourth Edwards, and the eighth Harry, were men profuse, gay, boisterous; lovers of women and of wine, of no outward sanctity or gravity.

Charles was a ruler after the Italian fashion; grave, demure, of a solemn carriage, and a sober diet; as constant at prayers as a priest, as heedless of oaths as an atheist." Mr Cowley answered somewhat sharply: "I am sorry, Sir, to hear you speak thus.

I had hoped that the vehemence of spirit which was caused by these violent times had now abated.