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Chapter the Thirty-Sixth.
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But let us now, like soldiers on the watch,
Put the soul’s armour1 on, alike prepared
For all a soldier’s warfare2 brings.
JOANNA BAILLIE.
The reader will recollect3, that when Rochecliffe and Joceline were made prisoners, the party which escorted them had two other captives in their train, Colonel Everard, namely, and the Rev4. Nehemiah Holdenough. When Cromwell had obtained entrance into Woodstock, and commenced his search after the fugitive5 Prince, the prisoners were placed in what had been an old guardroom, and which was by its strength well calculated to serve for a prison, and a guard was placed over them by Pearson. No light was allowed, save that of a glimmering6 fire of charcoal7. The prisoners remained separated from each other, Colonel Everard conversing8 with Nehemiah Holdenough, at a distance from Dr. Rochecliffe, Sir Henry Lee, and Joceline. The party was soon after augmented10 by Wildrake, who was brought down to the Lodge11, and thrust in with so little ceremony, that, his arms being bound, he had very nearly fallen on his nose in the middle of the prison.
“I thank you, my good friend,” he said, looking back to the door, which they who had pushed him in were securing —“Point de ceremonie — no apology for tumbling, so we light in good company. — Save ye, save ye, gentlemen all — What, á la mort, and nothing stirring to keep the spirits up, and make a night on’t? — the last we shall have, I take it; for a make 10 to a million, but we trine to the nubbing cheat [Footnote: Hang on the gallows] tomorrow. — Patron — noble patron, how goes it? This was but a
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