Ireton:
We have that pride—and we have suffered.
Cromwell:
I can disabuse rumour about Scotland, I can persuade Parliament about the Presbytery, I can convince the army of your good faith as to tolerance, if you will but give me the word. Let us together make Charles Rex the noblest name of Christendom.
Charles:
How shall I stand with the Episcopacy?
Cromwell:
All tyrannies must go together. We mislike no bishops save that they stand by a tyrannous church. That we will destroy. It is there as I have said. We attack not faiths or opinions, but despotism. Let a man think as he will, but he shall command no other man to think it.
Ireton:
We will not persecute even our persecutors. But they shall stay their hands, now and for ever.