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"Remove him," said Cromwell; "I know his stiffneckedness of old, though I have made him plough in my furrow, when he thought he was turning up his own swathe Remove him to the rear, and bring hither the other fellow. Come thou here this way closer closer. Corporal Grace-be-here, do thou keep thy hand upon the belt with which he is bound.
Rochecliffe offered some resistance, but was presently secured by the soldiers who pressed around him. "Look, some of you," said Cromwell, "what corpse this is upon whom these lewd sons of Belial have done a murder Corporal Grace-be-here Humgudgeon, see if thou knowest the face."
Come with me, Pearson; thou understandest this gear. Corporal Grace-be-here, stand thou fast on the platform of the window where Captain Pearson and I stood but even now, and bend the point of thy partisan against any who shall attempt to pass. Thou art as strong as a bull; and I will back thee against despair itself."
"Ay," said Grace-be-here Humgudgeon, "and then to misuse his dead body with your papistical doctrines, as if you had crammed cold porridge into its cold mouth. I pray thee, General, let these men's bonds be made strong." "Forbear, corporal," said Cromwell; "our time presses.
Labouring along in these dusky passages, where, from time to time, they were like to be choked by the dust which their acts of violence excited, the soldiers were obliged to be relieved oftener than once, and the bulky Corporal Grace-be-here himself puffed and blew like a grampus that has got into shoal water.
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