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" ... casting off all lingering proceedings like [those of] soldiers of fortune beyond sea, to spin out a war -we shall make the kingdom weary of us, and hate the name of a Parliament. For what do the enemy say? Nay, what do many say that were friends at... "
Cavaliers and Roundheads, Or Stories of the Great Civil War - Page 268
by John George Edgar - 1881
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Oliver Cromwell

Frederic Harrison - Great Britain - 1905 - 248 pages
...like soldiers-of-fortune beyond sea, to spin out a war, — we shall make the kingdom weary of us, and hate the name of a. Parliament. " For what do the enemy say ? nay, what do many say who were friends at the beginning of the Parliament ? Even this, That the Members of both Houses have...
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The Life of Sir Henry Vane the Younger: With a History of the Events of His Time

William Wotherspoon Ireland - Great Britain - 1905 - 572 pages
...like soldiers of fortune, beyond sea, to spin out a war, we shall make the kingdom weary of us ; and hate the name of a parliament. For what do the enemy say ? Nay, what the Lower House might be at first about 100, afterwards swollen by fresh defections during the disastrous...
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The Growth of English Industry and Commerce ..., Volume 2

William Cunningham - Free enterprise - 1907 - 662 pages
...effectual prosecution of the war, casting off all lingering proceedings like soldiers of fortune beyond the sea, to spin out a war, we shall make the kingdom weary of us, and hate the name of a parliament. For what do the Enemy say ? Nay what do many say that were friends at...
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Oliver Cromwell

Michael Russell - Great Britain - 1910 - 296 pages
...speedy, and effectual prosecution of the war, casting off all lingering proceedings, like soldiers of fortune beyond sea to spin out a war, we shall make the kingdom weary of us, and hate the name of a parliament. For what do the enemy say? nay, what do many say that were friends at...
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Exercises and Problems in English History, 1485-1820: Chiefly from Original ...

Great Britain - 1913 - 192 pages
...of soldiers of fortune beyond sea, to spin out a war,—we shall make the kingdom weary of us, and hate the name of a Parliament. For what do the enemy say ? Nay, what do many say that were friends at the beginning of the parliament? Even this, that the members of both houses have got...
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The Imperial Commonwealth: A Survey of Commercial, Industrial, and Social ...

Arthur Pierre Poley - Great Britain - 1921 - 410 pages
...and effectual prosecution of the war, casting off all lingering proceedings like those of soldiers of fortune beyond sea to spin out a war, we shall make the kingdom weary of us and hate the name of Parliament." ... "I do conceive if the army be not put into another method and the...
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The New Larned History for Ready Reference, Reading and Research ..., Volume 4

Josephus Nelson Larned - History - 1923 - 992 pages
...Commons after his quarrel with Manchester, 'casting off all lingering proceedings, like those of soldiers of fortune beyond sea to spin out a war, we shall make the kingdom weary of us, and hate the name of a Parliament.' But under the leaders who at present conducted it a vigorous conduct...
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Cromwell

G. R. Stirling Taylor - 1928 - 376 pages
...continuance of this War hath already brought it into. . . . We shall make the kingdom weary of us, and hate the name of a Parliament. For what do the enemy say? Nay, what do many say that were friends at the beginning of the Parliament? Even this, That the Members of both Houses have got...
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English Constitutional Conflicts of the Seventeenth Century: 1603-1689

J. R. Tanner - History - 1928 - 334 pages
...Kingdoms was instructed to report on the state of the Parliamentary armies, and especially "to consider 1 "For what do the enemy say? Nay, what do many say that were friends at the beginning of the Parliament? Even this, that the members of both Houses have got...
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The Rise of the New Model Army

Mark A. Kishlansky - History - 1983 - 404 pages
...set aside the specific charges and countercharges to address the issue of "pride and covetousness." "For what do the enemy say? Nay, what do many say that were friends at the beginning of the Parliament? Even this, that the members of both Houses have got...
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