Oliver Cromwell: A Play

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Cromwell's house at Ely, about the year 1639. An early summer evening. The window of the room opens on to a smooth lawn, used for bowling, and a garden full of flowers.
Oliver's wife, Elizabeth Cromwell, is sitting at the table, sewing. In a chair by the open window Mrs. Cromwell, his mother, is reading. She is eighty years of age.
Mrs. Cromwell:
Oliver troubles me, persuading everywhere. Restless like this.
Elizabeth:
He says that the time is uneasy, and that we are part of it.
Mrs. Cromwell:
There's a man's house. It's enough surely.
Elizabeth:
I know. But Oliver must be doing. You know how when he took the magistracy he would listen to none of us. He knows best.
Mrs. Cromwell: