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It was therefore recommended to her, that she should pay her forces in base money; and it was asserted that, besides the great saving to the revenue, this species of coin could never be exported with advantage, and would not pass in any foreign market. * Camden, p. 643 Rymer, tom, xvi. p. 414.
This information, as may be supposed, caused a great deal of excitement in the family. As Captain Rymer was ordered to proceed at once, there was no time to be lost in making the necessary preparations. Their friends called to congratulate, and at the same time to express their regret at losing them. The Mortons, and poor Mrs Merryweather, would certainly miss them more than anybody else.
The first is, that we thought you had lost the number of your mess; and, excuse me, you certainly do not look like an English midshipman." "No, sir, I don't think I do," said Harry, laughing. "Now let me introduce my friends to you. Here is Mr David Morton, and Captain Rymer and Miss Rymer, and all these ladies and gentlemen. And it will take some time to tell you all about ourselves."
In perfect sympathy with Mr. Rymer and his father, he allowed "no punishment could be too great for the seducer of innocence, the selfish invader of a whole family's repose."
Rymer asserts, that Spenser may be reckoned the first of our heroic poets. He had a large spirit, a sharp judgment, and a genius for heroic poetry, perhaps above any that ever wrote since Virgil, but our misfortune is, he wanted a true idea, and lost himself by following an unfaithful guide.
Still determined to reach her end, she tried again to force her unhappy daughter on me. "Will you consent," she persisted, "to see Susan?" If she had been a little nearer to me, I am afraid I should have struck her. "You wretch!" I said, "do you know that I am a dying man?" "While there's life there's hope," Mrs. Rymer remarked. I ought to have controlled myself; but it was not to be done.
Wotton, to conclude the negotiation, and to settle a peace with Henry on any reasonable terms. * Forbes's Full View, vol. i. p. 59. Forbes's Full View, vol. i. p. 54. A peace with Scotland was a necessary consequence of that with France. * Forbes, vol. i. p. 68. Rymer, tom. xv. p 505.
Henry said, with equal triumph, "he had not dared to take the means to learn, nor had Rebecca dared to give one instance of her partiality." Rebecca was the youngest, and by far the least handsome daughter of four, to whom the Reverend Mr. Rymer, a widower, was father.
I understood that I might reckon at the utmost on three weeks of life. What I felt, on arriving at this conclusion, I shall not say. It is the one secret I keep from the readers of these lines. The next day, Mrs. Rymer called once more to make inquiries. Not satisfied with the servant's report, she entreated that I would consent to see her.
The Island of Barbadoes was also planted in this reign. * Rymer, tom. xvii. p. 621. Rymer, tom. xvii. p. 621, 633.
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