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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Atlantic Essays, A charge with Prince Rupert. (search)
words, pole-axes, and petronels; this includes Rupert's own lifeguard of chosen men. Lord Wentworth,nd fifty dragoons, is commanded by Will Legge, Rupert's life-long friend and correspondent; and Herbof its own. No use for the King to hang two of Rupert's men for stealing, when their commander couldvation was a victory. To say, therefore, that Rupert's men never starved, is to say that they alway on foot, some on horseback. More and more of Rupert's men rush in; they fight through the stragglitreat,--treasures that otherwise no trooper of Rupert's would have spared: scarlet cloth, bedding, sse high-born, dissolute, reckless Cavaliers of Rupert's. I have seen them running up walls twenty fepikes of the London train-bands. Nor can even Rupert's men claim to monopolize the courage of the Kce is needed: the enemy are scattered, and, as Rupert's Cavaliers are dashing on, in their accustomeincidences in their lives. At the marriage of Rupert's mother, the student Hampden was chosen to wr