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[WALTER THORNBURY. See Page 54.]

I CANNOT hope to win her-I, uncouth,
With the stained scarlet ever on my back,
And voice all hoarse with bawling to the dogs
Through the thick covert-I, good lord, alack!
Not fit for such as her; and when I touch
Her hand, and wring it like a farmer's paw,
She strikes me with her fan, and cries, "Have
done!"

And I am drunk, or stammer out, "Why, law!"

She flung the fox-brush in my stupid teeth,
That I thought trophy for a queen to wear;
I blew my horn to please her, and she cried,
"For that fool's flute!"-I frowned. Oh, ass and
bear!

Look at them riding now across the chase!

How close their cheeks are-God! a loaded gun,
And I would stop that fooling. Curse his teeth!
How white they shine, a-twinkling in the sun.
Sound, for I see them just upon the crown
Of the park hill, and I must sally out.
Quick, ere the scent is found. A horse, a horse!
The fire-hot chestnut. Ah! they wheel about!
Now for a burst full in the trooper's face;
"Tis but a bullet sting, and then a groan.
Tell her I kissed this rose before I went,
And pray her come to see my burial-place.

I'll save the Jacobin-for life to me
Is a sucked orange that I fling away.
They may be happy-she will be the heir;
And when the trouble's gone, he'll have his way,
And wed the prettiest maid in Rutlandshire.
Well, sirs, to covert; give the horse a lash.
We ride as at a bullfinch. Yoicks! hurrah!
Yoicks! tally ho! yoicks! forward!-now the
crash.

To face a rasper, man, or breast a gate,
To leap a yawner, clear a slapping brook,
We yield to none in Rutland; but a dunce
Am I in all this cursed dance and music book,
Fal-lal and ribbons-know not how to smile
When I am hurt or stung, and do not know
How to well thank the fool who bruised my heart;
But long to tear his throat and blow for blow.
Troopers, by heaven! two, four, six-yes, eight.
And all fast coming through the avenue
After young Vernon-I'll be sworn he's trapped;
Not much love lost, all know, between us two;
Yet, still he loves her, and she him to death.
What, then, this white rose that the fellow dropped;
She kissed it first just at the staircase foot.

I stick it in my button-hole, pull down my hat,
Ride hotly out: they challenge me and shout.

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CHARLES II.'S FLIGHT AFTER THE BATTLE OF WORCESTER.
[EDWARD HYDE, Earl of Clarendon, born in Wiltshire in 1608. Educated at Oxford. Made Lord
Chancellor by Charles II. Died 1674.]

FTER some days' stay, and communication between the king and the Lord Wilmot by letters, the king came to know that Colonel Francis Windham lived within little more than a day's journey of the place where he was, of which he was very glad; for, besides the 'inclination he had to his eldest brother, whose wife had been his nurse, this gentleman had behaved himself very well during the war, and had been governor of Dunster Castle where the king had lodged when he was in the west. After the end of the war, and when all other places were surrendered in that county, he likewise surrendered that, upon fair conditions, and made his peace, and afterwards married a wife with a competent for

tune, and lived, quietly, without any suspicion of having lessened his affection towards the king.

The king sent Wilmot to him, and acquainted him where he was, and "that he would gladly speak with him." It was not hard for him to choose a good place where to meet, and thereupon the day was appointed. After the king had taken his leave of Mrs. Lane, who remained with her cousin Norton, the king and the Lord Wilmot met the colonel; and in the way he met in a town through which they passed, Mr. Kirton, a servant of the king's, who well knew the Lord Wilmot, who had no other disguise than the hawk, but took no notice of him, nor suspected the king to be there; yet that day made the king more wary of having him in his company upon the way. At the place of meeting, they rested only one night, and then the king went to the colonel's house where he rested many days, whilst the colonel projected at what place the king might embark,

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and how they might procure a vessel to be ready there, which was not easy to find, there being so, great a fear possessing those who were honest, that it was hard to procure any vessel that was outward bound to take in any passengers.

There was a gentleman, one Mr. Ellison, who lived near Lyme, in Dorsetshire, and was well known to Colonel Windham, having been a captain in the king's army, and was still looked upon as a very honest man. With him the colonel consulted how they might get a vessel to be ready to take in

a couple of gentlemen, friends of his, who were in danger to be arrested, and transport them into France. Though no man would ask who the persons were, yet it could not but be suspected who they were; at least they concluded that it was some of Worcester party. Lyme was generally as malicious and disaffected a town to the king's interest as any town in England could be, yet there was in it a master of a barque, of whose honesty this captain was very confident. This man was lately returned from France, and had

unladen his vessel, when Ellison asked him "when he would make another voyage?" And he answered. "As soon as he could get lading for his ship." The other asked "whether he would undertake to carry over a couple of gentlemen, and land them in France, if he might be as well paid for his voyage as he used to be when he was freighted by the merchants ?" In conclusion, he told him "he should receive fifty pounds for his fare." The large recompense had that effect, that the man undertook it; though he said "he must make his provision very secretly, for that he might be well suspected for going to sea again without being freighted, after he was so newly returned." Colonel Windham being advertised of this, came, together with the Lord Wilmot, to the captain's house, from whence the lord and the captain rid to a house near Lyme, where the master of the barque met them; and the Lord Wilmot being satisfied with the discourse of the man, and his wariness in foreseeing suspicions which would arise, it was resolved that on such a night, which upon consideration of the tides was agreed upon, the man should draw out his vessel from the pier, and, being at sea, should come to such a point about a mile from the town, where his ship should remain upon the beach when the water was gone, which would take it off again about break of day the next morning. There was very near that point, even in the view of it, a small inn, kept by a man who was reputed honest, to which the cavaliers of the country often resorted; and the London road passed that way, so that it was seldom without company. Into that inn the two gentlemen were to come in the beginning of the night, that they might put themselves on board. All things being thus concerted, and good earnest given to the master, the Lord Wilmot and the colonel returned to the colonel's house, above a day's journey from the place, the captain undertaking every day to look that the master should provide, and, if anything fell out contrary to expectation, to give the colonel notice at such a place where they intended the king should be the day before he was to embark.

The king being satisfied with these preparations, came at the time appointed to that house where he was to hear that all went as it ought to do; of which he received assurance from the captain, who found that the man had honestly put his provisions on board, and had his company ready, which were but four men, and that the vessel should be drawn out that night; so that it was fit for the two persons to come to the aforesaid inn: and the captain conducted them within sight of it, and then went to his own house, not distant a mile from it; the colonel remaining still at the house where they had lodged the night before,

till he might hear the news of their being embarked.

They found many passengers in the inn, and so were to be contented with an ordinary chamber, which they did not intend to sleep long in. But as soon as there appeared any light, Wilmot went out to discover the barque, of which there was no appearance. In a word, the sun arose, and nothing like a ship in view. They sent to the captain, who was as much amazed; and he sent to the town, and his servant could not find the master of the barque, which was still in the pier. They suspected the captain, and the captain suspected the master. However, it being past ten of the clock, they concluded it was not fit for them to stay longer there, and so they mounted their horses again to return to the house where they had left the colonel, who, they knew, resolved to stay there till he were assured that they were gone.

The truth of the disappointment was this: the man meant honestly, and made all things ready for his departure; and the night he was to go out with his vessel he had stayed in his own house, and slept two or three hours; and the time of the tide being come that it was necessary to be on board, he took out of a cupboard some linen and other things, which he used to carry with

him to sea. been for some days fuller of thoughts than he used to be, and that he had been speaking with seamen who used to go with him, and that some of them had carried provisions on board the barque; of which she had asked her husband the reason, who had told her "that he was promised freight speedily, and therefore he would make all things ready." She was sure there was yet no lading in the ship, and therefore, when she saw her husband take all those materials with him, which was a sure sign that he meant to go to sea, and it being late in the night, she shut the door, and swore he should not go out of the house. He told her "he must go, and was engaged to go to sea that night, for which he should be well paid." His wife told him "she was sure he was doing somewhat that would undo him, and she was resolved he should not go out of his house; and if he should persist in it, she would tell the neighbours, and carry him before the mayor to be examined, that the truth might be found out." The poor man, thus mastered by the passion and violence of his wife, was forced to yield to her, that there might be no further noise, and so went into his bed.

His wife had observed that he had

And it was very happy that the king's jealousy hastened him from that inn. It was the solemn fast-day, which was observed in those times principally to inflame the people against the king, and all those who were loyal to him; and there was a

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chapel in that village over against that inn, where soldiers, which were sent now from the army to a weaver, who had been a soldier, used to preach, their quarters, and many regiments of horse and and utter all the villany imaginable against the foot were assigned for the west, of which diviold order of government: and he was then in the sion Desborough was commander-in-chief. These chapel preaching to his congregation when the marches were like to last for many days, and it king went from thence, and telling the people would not be fit for the king to stay so long in "that Charles Stuart was lurking somewhere in that place. Thereupon he resorted to his old that country, and that they would merit from God security of taking a woman behind him, a kinsAlmighty if they could find him out." The passen- woman of Colonel Windham, whom he carried in gers, who had lodged in the inn that night, had, that manner to a place not far from Salisbury, to as soon as they were up, sent for a smith to visit which Colonel Philips conducted him. In this ;! their horses, it being a hard frost. The smith, journey he passed through the middle of a regi. when he had done what he was sent for, according ment of horse, and, presently after, met Desboto the custom of that people, examined the feet rough walking down a hill with three or four men of the other two horses, to find more work. When with him, who had lodged in Salisbury the night he had observed them, he told the host of the before, all that road being full of soldiers. house, "that one of those horses had travelled far, and that he was sure that his four shoes had been made in four several counties;" which, whether his skill was able to discover or no, was very true. The smith, going to the sermon, told the story to some of his neighbours, and so it came to the ears of the preacher when his sermon was done. Im mediately he sent for an officer, and searched the inn, and inquired for those horses; and being informed that they were gone, he caused horses to be sent to follow them, and to make inquiry after the two men who rid those horses, and positively declared "that one of them was Charles Stuart."

When they came again to the colonel, they presently concluded that they were to make no longer stay in those parts, nor any more to endeavour to find a ship upon that coast; and without any further delay, they rode back to the colonel's house, where they arrived in the night. Then they resolved to make their next attempt in Hampshire and Sussex, where Colonel Windham had no interest. They must pass through all Wiltshire before they came thither, which would require many days' journey; and they were first to consider what honest houses there were in or near the way, where they might securely repose; and it was thought very dangerous for the king to ride through any great town, as Salisbury, or Winchester, which might probably lie in their

way.

There was, between that and Salisbury, a very honest gentleman, Colonel Robert Philips, a younger brother of a very good family, which had always been very loyal, and he had served the king during the war. The king was resolved to trust him, and so sent the Lord Wilmot to a place from whence he might send to Mr. Philips to come to him; and when he had spoken with him, Mr. Philips should come to the king, and Wilmot was to stay in such a place as they two should agree. Mr. Philips accordingly came to the colonel's house, which he could do without suspicion, they being nearly allied. The ways were very full of

The next day, upon the plains, Dr. Hinchman, one of the prebends of Salisbury, met the king, the Lord Wilmot and Philips then leaving him to go to the sea-coast to find a vessel, the doctor conducting the king to a place called Heale, three miles from Salisbury, belonging then to Serjeant Hyde, who was afterwards Chief Justice of the King's Bench, and then in the possession of the widow of his elder brother--a house that stood alone from neighbours, and from any highway— where, coming in late in the evening, he supped with some gentlemen who accidentally were in the house, which could not well be avoided. But the next morning he went early from thence, as if he had continued his journey; and the widow, being trusted with the knowledge of her guest, sent her servants out of the way, and at an hour appointed received him again, and accommodated him in a little room, which had been made since the beginning of the troubles for the concealment of delinquents, the seat always belonging to a malignant family.

Here he lay concealed, without the knowledge of some gentlemen who lived in the house, and of others who daily resorted thither, for many days, the widow herself only attending him with such things as were necessary, and bringing him such letters as the doctor received from the Lord Wilmot and Colonel Philips. A vessel being at last provided upon the coast of Sussex, and notice thereof sent to Dr. Hinchman, he sent to the king to meet him at Stonehenge, upon the plains, three miles from Heale, whither the widow took care to direct him; and being there met, he attended him to the place where Colonel Philips received him. He, the next day, delivered him to the Lord Wilmot, who went with him to a house in Sussex recommended by Colonel Gunter, a gentleman of that country, who had served the king in the war, who met him there, and had provided a little barque at Brighthelmstone, a small fisher town, where he went early on board, and, by God's blessing, arrived safely in Normandy.

SHADOWS.

[From the Lantern, a comic paper, published at New York, and edited by Mr. JOHN BROUGHAM, the well-known actor and

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