Others' goodness is their own; yours is a whole country's, yea three kingdoms'-- for which you justly possess interest and renown with wise and good men: virtue is a thousand escutcheons.

Go on, my Lord; go on happily, to love Religion, to exemplify it.

May your Lordship long continue an instrument of use, a pattern of virtue, and a precedent of glory!" On the 19th of April 1658, or not six weeks after the letter was written, the old Earl himself died.

By that time the louring appearances had rolled away, and Cromwell's "prudent, heroic, and honourable managery" had again been widely confessed.[1] [Footnote 1: Godwin, IV.

527-531, where Warwick's beautiful letter is quoted in full, but where his death is postdated by a month.