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Excerpt from Studies in History and Letters
With beat of drum, with clatter of hoof and rattle of spur and scabbard, tramping across old Magdalen Bridge, cantering down the hillsides, crashing through the beech-woods, echoing through the chalky hollows, ride leisurely the gay Cavaliers. Some in new scarfs and feathers, worthy of the show-troop, others with torn laces, broken helmets, and guilty red smears on their buff doublets; some eager for their first skirmish, others weak and silent, still ban daged from the last one; discharging now a rattle of contemptuous shot at some closed Puritan house, grim and stem as its master; firing anon as noisy a salute, as they pass some mansion where a high-born beauty dwells, on they ride. Leaving the towers of Oxford be hind them, keeping the ancient Roman highway, passing by the low, strong, many-gabled farm houses, with rustic beauties smiling at the win dows and wiser fathers scowling at the doors, on they ride. To the Royalists, these troopers are Prince Robert and the hope Of the nation to the Puritans, they are only Prince Robber and his company of rake-shames. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
