Ireton:

I don't know how things are going. But I feel that great events are making and that you and Mr. Hampden here may have power to use men. If it should be so, I would be used. That is all.

Cromwell:

John's the man. I'm likely enough to stay the rest of my days in Ely.

Ireton:

I don't think so, sir.

Cromwell:

No? Well. A glass of sherry, John—or gin?

Hampden:

Sherry, Oliver.