He told his son, however, that he should place no rein upon his inclinations should he choose to meddle further in the matter.

Harry would fain have gone abroad, whither so many of the leading Cavaliers had already betaken themselves, and entered the service of some foreign court for a few years.

But his father dissuaded him from this, at any rate for the present.
"These delays and negotiations," he said, "cannot last forever.

I care not whether Presbyterians or Independents get the power over our unhappy country.

The Independents are perhaps the more bigoted; the Presbyterians the more intolerant.