Early English Poetry, Ballads, and Popular Literature of the Middle Ages, Vol. 3: Edited From Original Manuscripts and Scarce Publications (Classic Reprint) - Paperback

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The second portion of these ballads relates to a posture of affairs which in many respects bore a close resemblance to the former. The powerful hand of Cromwell no longer kept in control the rage of partyism; his son Richard had been obliged to retire from the scene and the contend ing parties in the restored Commonwealth made room for the renewed intrigues of the royalists. Instead of a king at home and in captivity, there was one free, but in a foreign land. Most of the skilful hands who had guided the vessel of the state through so many troubles, were departed and the man who became suddenly master by the chances of the moment, conscious of his own incapacity, and unable to foresee the future, be trayed the cause which he pretended to support, to secure his own personal impunity. The couse quence was, after twenty-eight years of misgovern ment, the more effectual, though less bloody, revolution of eighty-eight.

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