Ireton:
We carry too many callow soldiers against them. Example will be everything. General Cromwell and his chosen troops have that, and experience; none like them.
Pemberton:
Does the General himself know of our necessity, do you think, sir?
Fairfax:
There is no tracing him. He almost certainly does not know, or he would have insisted. There are rumours of him from the eastern counties, of some activities with his men, but no more.
Ireton:
And the hope of England here in grave peril. Westminster is disgraceful.
Staines:
Your appeal was plain, sir—weighty enough?