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Updated: June 15, 2025
In luxury, in idleness, in social formalities, in king-worship, in travelling, in repose do they live. At this point he kept on substituting one word for another, but made no pause. "Their greatest exertion, he said, was to try to enjoy an additional party or an extra levee, their greatest danger was a cold or an overtaxed digestion.
The popular name for him was "Rowley," or "Old Rowley" a nickname of mysterious origin, though it is said to have been given him from a fancied resemblance to a famous hunter in his stables. Perhaps it is the very final test of popularity that a ruler should have a nickname known to every one. Cromwell's death roused all England to a frenzy of king-worship.
Bend and strain the law as he might, there never was a time when the most wilful of English rulers failed to own the restraints of law; and the obedience of the most servile among English subjects lay within bounds, at once political and religious, which no theory of king-worship could bring them to overpass.
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