[422] Balcarras' Account, p. 524.
[423] Ralph. Vol. II.
[424] Carte's "Life of Ormond," vol. II. p, 444.
[425] After the Revolution these pieces were collected into a volume, and entitled, "A second five years Struggle against Popery and Tyranny." The preface bears, that "they were written, not out of harm's way, but in the enemy's quarters, with so great danger as well as difficulty, that I lived for many years together only from term to term. But no man ought to count his life dear to him in the cause of his country; for he that is bound to love one neighbour as himself, must in proportion love ten millions of neighbours so many times better than himself."
[426] That of James II., then encamped on Hounslow Heath.
[427] They omitted to strip off his cassock; and that slight circumstance rendered the degradation imperfect, and saved his benefice.
[428] Oliver Cromwell.
[429] He had not so totally lost his poetical reputation, but that a brother bard was left to bewail his apostacy, as a disgrace to his talents:
For one, who formerly stood candidate
For wit and sense with men of highest rate.