...have witnessed 'vhat he describes, writes of this scene: — . " He nothing common did nor mean After that memorable scene ; But with his keener eye The axe's edge did try : Nor call'd the gods, with vulgar spite, To vindicate his helpless right; But bovv'd his comely head Down...

...borne The tragic scaffold might adorn. While round the armed bands Did clap their bloody hands, Hi nothing common did or mean Upon that memorable scene,...right; But bowed his comely head Down, as upon a bed. And he who wrote this was Cromwell's Latin Secretary ! and Cromwell's other Latin Secretary was Milton...

...Charles is said to have entered upon the icaffold through the centre window of the latter building. But with his keener eye The axe's edge did try : Nor...right; But bowed his comely head Down as upon a bed ! — So, in a few years after, wrote a most generous adversary, whose name is dear to every lover...

...thus finely described by Andrew Marvel: — " While round the armed bands Did clap their bloody bauds, He nothing common did, or mean, Upon that memorable scene ; But with his keener eye The axe.s edge did try : Nor called the gods, with vulgar spite, To vindicate his helpless right; But bowed...

...actor borne, The tragic scaffold might adorn, While round the armed bands Did clap their bloody hands. HE nothing common did or mean Upon that memorable...with vulgar spite, To vindicate his helpless right l But towed his comely head, Down, as upon a bed. This was that memorable hour, Which first assured...

...round the armed bands Did clap their bloody hands. HE nothing common did or mean Upon that metnorable scene, But with his keener eye The axe's edge did...with vulgar spite, To vindicate his helpless right I But bowed his comely head, Down, as upon a bed. This was that memorable hour, Which first assured...

...himself, and his sword is pure spirit also. " He nothing common did or mean Upon that memorable scene, Nor called the gods with vulgar spite, To vindicate...helpless right ; But bowed his comely head Down as npon a bed." What a transit was that of his horizontal body alone, but just cut down from the gallows-tree...

...such a quarter, on the execution of Charles the First, are scarcely so well known as they deserve : 'He nothing common did or mean, Upon that memorable...right, But bowed his comely head Down as upon a bed.' No scholar can read these lines, without being irresistibly reminded of the fine passages in the '...

...from the works of Andrew Marvel : — " He nothing common did nor mean After that memorable scene j But with his keener eye The axe's edge did try, Nor...helpless right, But bowed his comely head Down, as it were, upon a bed." It may surprise some to find Charles the First included among the Warriors of...

...actor borne, The tragic scaffold might adorn, While round the armed bands, Did clap their bloody hands. He nothing common did, or mean, Upon that memorable...But with his keener eye The axe's edge did try ; Nor call'd the gods with vulgar spite To vindicate his helpless right, But bow'd his comely head Down,...