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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Atlantic Essays, A charge with Prince Rupert. (search)
ers, and insulting women, it is inevitable to infer that in earlier and less stringent times they did the same unpunished. When Mrs. Hutchinson describes a portion of the soldiers on her own side as licentious, ungovernable wretches, --when Sir Samuel Luke, in his letters, depicts the glee with which his men plunder the pockets of the slain,--when poor John Wolstenholme writes to Headquarters that his own compatriots have seized all his hay and horses, so that his wife cannot serve God with thragoons, outstripping the tardy Essex, to dare all and die. In vain does Gunter perish beside his flag; in vain does Crosse, his horse being killed under him, spring in the midst of battle on another; in vain does that great-spirited little Sir Samuel Luke (the original of Hudibras) get thrice captured and thrice escape. For Hampden, the hope of the nation, is fatally shot through the shoulder with two carbine-balls in the first charge; the whole troop sees it with dismay; Essex comes up, as