SOME FEW NOTES OF THE 

 AUTHORESSE 



It was far more diflftcult in the late civil wars, for 

 My Lord to raise an army for His Majesties service, 

 then it was for the Parliament to raise an army against 

 His Majesty: not onely because the Parliament were 

 many, and My Lord but one single person; but by 

 reason a kingly or monarchical government was then 

 generally disliked, and most part of the kingdom 

 proved rebellious, and assisted the ParHament either 

 with their purses or persons, or both; when as the 

 army which My Lord raised for the defence and 

 maintenance of the King, and his rights, was raised 

 most upon his own and his friends' interest : for it is 

 frequently seen and known by woful experience, that 

 rebellious and factious parties do more suddenly and 

 numerously flock together to act a mischievous design, 

 then loyal and honest men to assist or maintain a just 

 cause ; and certainly 'tis much to be lamented,, that 

 evil men should be more industrious and prosperous 

 then good, and that the wicked should have a more 

 desperate courage, then the virtuous, an active valour. 



II 



I have observed, that many by flattering poets 

 have been compared to Caesar, without desert; but 

 this I dare freely and without flattery ^say of My Lord, 

 that though he had not Caesar's fortune, yet he wanted 



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