employ our talents, and not to lay them up in a napkin; had it been
done among the cavaliers, it had been just, then the Israelite had
spoiled the Egyptian; but for Simeón to plunder Levi, that--that, &c."

The garrison of Newark defended themselves with much courage and
resolution against the besiegers, and did not surrender but by the
King's special command, after he had thrown himself into the hands of
the Scots; which action of his Majesty's Cleveland passionately
resented, in his poem called, the King's Disguise: Upon some private
intelligence, three days before the King reached them, he foresaw,
that the army would be bribed to surrender him, in which he was not
mistaken. As soon as this event took place, Cleveland, who warmly
adhered to the regal party, was obliged to atone for his loyalty by
languishing in a jail, at Yarmouth, where he remained for some time
under all the disadvantages of poverty, and wretchedness: At last
being quite spent with the severity of his confinement, he addressed
Oliver Cromwell in a petition for liberty, in such pathetic and moving
terms, that his heart was melted with the prisoner's expostulation,
and he ordered him to be set at liberty. In this address, our author
did not in the least violate his loyalty, for he made no concessions
to Oliver, but only a representation of the hardships he suffered,
without acknowledging his sovereignty, tho' not without flattering his
power. Having thus obtained his liberty, he settled himself in
Gray's-Inn, and as he owed his releasement to the Protector, he
thought it his duty to be passive, and not at least to act against
him: But Cleveland did not long enjoy his state of unenvied ease, for
he was seized with an intermitting fever, and died the 29th of April,
1685.

[2]On the first of May he was buried, and his dear friend Dr. John