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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Atlantic Essays, A charge with Prince Rupert. (search)
ounds onward joyously beside him, that quadruped renowned in the pamphlets of the time, whose snowy skin has been stained by many a blood-drop in the desperate forays of his master, but who has thus far escaped so safely that the Puritans believe him a familiar spirit, and try to destroy him by poyson and extempore prayer, which yet hurt him no more than the plague plaster did Mr. Pym. Failing in this, they pronounce the pretty creature to be a divell, not a very downright divell, but some Lapland ladye, once by nature a handsome white ladye, now by art a handsome white dogge. The Civil War is begun. The King has made his desperate attempt to arrest the five members of Parliament, and has been checkmated by Lucy Carlisle. So the fatal standard was reared, ten months ago, on that dismal day at Nottingham,--the King's arms, quartered with a bloody hand pointing to the crown, and the red battle-flag above;--blown down disastrously at night, replaced sadly in the morning, to wave wh