For their other requisition, that he should give up to their vengeance all who had defended the rights of his crown, his honour must have been ruined if he had complied.

Is it not therefore plain that they desired these things only in order that, by refusing, his Majesty might give them a pretence for war?
"Men have often risen up against fraud, against cruelty, against rapine.

But when before was it known that concessions were met with importunities, graciousness with insults, the open palm of bounty with the clenched fist of malice?
Was it like trusty delegates of the Commons of England, and faithful stewards of their liberty and their wealth, to engage them for such causes in civil war, which both to liberty and to wealth is of all things the most hostile.

Evil indeed must be the disease which is not more tolerable than such a medicine.

Those who, even to save a nation from tyrants, excite it to civil war do in general but minister to it the same miserable kind of relief wherewith the wizards of Pharaoh mocked the Egyptian.