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TWO
SPEECHES[1]
MADE IN THE
RUMP-PARLIAMENT.
When it was restor'd by the Officers of the Army in the Year 1659.
Ut in vita, sic in studiis pulcherrimum, & humanissimum existimo severitatem comitatemque miscere, ne illa in tristitiam, hæc in petulantiam excedat. Plin. Ep. 21. l. 28.
Mr. Speaker.
Though I have always thought, since we last came hither, that our proper Business is only to sit here, not to vote, unless it be at
- ↑ Our Author being desirous to expose equally the Excesses of the two prevailing Parties, the Independents and Presbyterians, very judiciously fix'd upon the Method of doing it by these two Speeches, the first supposed to be made by an old Member of the House against the Enormities committed by the Army, and the great Encroachment it had made upon the civil Power; and the other, by Way of Reply, by an Officer of the Army against the Tyranny of the Parliament. No Plan could have possibly been form'd more suitable to his Purpose; and I fancy it will be acknowledged, that the Execution of it is no less masterly, spirited, and judicious.
