Excerpt from Cromwell, Vol. 1 of 2: An Historical Novel

"Can this be He -
That hath no privilege of gentle birth,
Beauty, nor grace, nor utterance sublime
Of words persuasive, nor the blood-bought skill
That wins i' the foughten field?"

"But even as you will, fair sir - even as you will! Though, an' you ride for Huntingdon this night, and wish not, ere it be two hours the later, that you had tarried here at the White Dragon, then am not I called Walter Danforth, nor have I drawn good ale in Royston these forty years and better."

With this prophetic sentence did the lord of cup and can wind up a long narration of roads impassable, and bridges broken, and "all the moving accidents of flood and field, " with which, according to time-honoured usage among the heroes of the spigot, he was endeavouring to beguile the lated wayfarer.

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