Excerpt from Occasional Historian: Containing Instructions to an English Baronet in Northamptonshire, Concerning the Craftsman's Pretended Memoirs of Sir John Oldcastle, and the Plan of His Design'd Reflections Upon King Charles the First
Experience that the Sword has run a way with what the Robehas proieéled; and the firft Inventers of Revolutions have out-liv'dw'theinfelves inthe Ruin they have preparfi for others. I have feen a great many of thefe Gentlemen moulder away in Difcontent, or pine in their Rural Retire nients, if fiegmatickgftand if aflivc.
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