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"Tell me of no serjeants-majors nor Prigginses," said Dame Humphreys,
"we shall never edify under any body as we did under the good old
Doctor."
This conversation passed among the villagers, after the Beaumonts, with
dejected but submissive hearts, had taken their silent departure from
Ribblesdale.

[1] Many of these circumstances are copied from Bishop Hall's
"Hard Measure." He greatly leaned to the Puritans in doctrine; and,
in discipline was a noted opposer of Archbishop Laud.
[2] This list is taken out of a much more numerous one cited by
Lord Cobham.


CHAP. XI.
O piteous spectacle! O bloody times!
Whilst lions war, and battle for their dens,
Poor harmless lambs abide their enmity.
Shakspeare.

We left Eustace wakening the echoes with his songs, which, while they
expressed the exultation of his heart at emerging from confinement and
obscurity, and launching into a busy scene of action, were also intended
to divert the alarm of his fair companions.


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