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church with you, and lie in her bosom so long, 

 till they sting both her and you to death, which 

 makes all mankind stand a tiptoe to see a totter- 

 ing government sink, and press down itself under 

 its own weight. 



Arn. What ! have the grandees no influence 

 on the people, are they grown void of natural 

 affections to themselves ? 



Agrip. What charity they have for themselves 

 I know not ; but this I know, they have none 

 for one another ; nor will they contribute one 

 single sigh for the kingdom's calamity, but ra- 

 ther shove the burden upon the peoples shoul- 

 ders. 



Arn. This is forty one all over : O, the mise- 

 ries that forty one brought upon the nation ! 

 (thus some cry out,) but not a word of the wick- 

 edness of the preceding years that brought the 

 misery upon forty one. Those barbarous stig- 

 matizings, brandings, gaggings, pillorings, whip- 

 pings, cutting off ears, like lopping of trees, op- 

 pressive judgments, unheard-of proceeds by the 

 High- Commission, and Star-Chamber-Courts ; 

 judicatories fitter for the Spanish Inquisition, 

 than free-born Englishmen and Christians ; by 

 which means, liberty and property were invaded 

 at pleasure. 



Tlieoph. I remember what King Ahab said to 

 Elijah the prophet, " Art thou the troubkr of Is- 



