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 Carr [after a pause.]Of the Long Parliament I've earned the wrath. The Tower hath held me under lock and key Mourning our liberties, these seven years, Vanished 'neath Cromwell's rule. My gaoler said To me this morning, throwing wide my door:— "At the Three Cranes thou art awaited. Go! "Its tribes doth Israel convoke; at last "Cromwell's to be o'erthrown, and in his fall "The foul abuses that corrupt the state."— So went I forth, and as in days of old Jacob to Mesopotamia, I come To your fraternal door. My soul awaits Your blessed healing words, as does the earth The rain from heaven. I am girt about And made unclean with malediction dire. Wherefore with hyssop purify me, pray; For if your eyes turn not their light upon me, I shall be as a dead man in the tomb! Rochester [to , in an undertone.]What shocking jargon! Davenant [in the same tone.] From th' Apocalypse. Carr.My soul doth crave the light. Rochester [aside.] Then put an end To the eclipse! I gather from his speech He's from the Tower and his name is Carr. He's one of the conspirators sent hither By Barkstead. This same Carr's a sectary, A bird of prey. Assisted by Strachan, In the late war he drew his forces off From the encampment of the Parliament. The Parliament confined him in the Tower; But, Master Davenant, blush you to know That Cromwell he reproached for that he did By treachery the Parliament dissolve