AN Historical Romance. EDITED BY HORACE SMITH, ESQ. AUTHOR OF "BRAMBLETYE HOUSE." Yet is the tale, true though it be, as strange, To minstrel harps at midnight's witching hour. ROGERS'S Poems. IN THREE VOLUM ES. VOL. III. LONDON: HENRY COLBURN, PUBLISHER, GREAT MARLBOROUGH STREET. CROMWELL. BOOK III. There can be slain No sacrifice to God more acceptable Than an unjust and wicked king. MILTON. (From Seneca.) Remorse from power: and to speak truth of Cæsar, That lowliness is young ambition's ladder, He then unto the ladder turns his back, Julius Cæsar. Two full years had gone round since the defeat of Naseby had paralyzed the efforts and destroyed the hopes of Charles Stuart's party |