Monthault answered, that soldiers never thought of dying. They separated; Eustace, to bid a mental farewel to his kindred, home, and love; and Monthault, to prepare the Prince and Lord Goring to welcome a pleasant addition to their party in a spirited youth, who had resolved to escape from the restrictions of austere friends, and to try the agreeable freedom of a military life. In this view these defenders of the Crown and the Church of England looked on the last resources which a falling King committed to their care.


[ [1]] This paragraph is copied from Fenelon.

[ [2]] Walton's Lives.

[ CHAP. XIII. ]

O! holy men!

Ye are the sons of piety and peace;

Ye never felt the sharp vindictive spur

That goads the injured warrior; the hot tide

That flushes crimson on the conscious cheek