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 Cromwell [to .]   Richard, you, my son and heir, Should to the army and the Parliament Be presently admitted. To that end I make you now a colonel and a peer, And member of the Privy Council, too. Richard [saluting his father, with embarrassment. But, Sir, the labours of the House—my tastes— You are, indeed, my father and my lord. But, by your leave, I dare to say that I Have more than I desire or deserve. I love the woods and fields, ease and repose; I love to hunt the roebuck and the stag; I love my rural haunts—where no revolts I fear save 'mongst my falcons and my hounds.

Cromwell [bitterly, aside. Would that the other were the elder!—Ah! What profiteth me all that I may do?

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Carr [folding his arms and looking  in the face. What wouldst thou have?—Tyrant by force of crimes, Are prison cells no shelter against thee? What would the apostate, what the renegade, With me? A Voice in the Crowd. Peace, madman!