Here, or elsewhere (all’s one to you—to me!) Earth, air, or water, gripes my ghostless dust, None knowing when brave fire shall set it free. Reader, if you an oft-tried rule will trust, You’ll gladly do and suffer what you must. My life was worn with serving you and you, And death is my reward, and welcome too: Revenge destroying but itself. While I To birds of prey leave my old cage and fly. Examples preach to th’ eye—care, then, mine says, Not how you end, but how you spend your days. (_Athenæ Oxonienses_, iii. 1243.) As to Thomas HARRISON, fifth-monarchy enthusiast, firm to the end in his adversity, he who had been ruthless in prosperity, we have already briefly referred to his closing hours in our Introduction to _Merry Drollery, Compleat_, p. xxix. JOHN HEWSON, Cobbler and Colonel, who had sat in the illegal mockery of Judgment on King Charles, was for the after years ridiculed by ballad-singers as a one-eyed spoiler of good leather. He escaped the doom of Tyburn by flight to Amsterdam, where he died in 1662. In default of his person, his picture was hung on a gibbet in Cheapside, 25th January, 1660-61. (See _Pepys’ Diary_ of that date.) His appearance was not undignified. One ballad specially devoted to him, at his flight, is “A Hymne to the Gentle Craft; or, _Hewson’s_ Lamentation”:— Listen a while to what I shall say Of a blind cobbler that’s gone astray Out of the Parliament’s High-way, Good people, pity the blind! [verse 17.] And now he has gone to the Lord knows whether, He and this winter go together, If he be caught he will lose his leather, Good people, pity the blind! (_Rump_, Coll. 1662 edit., ii. 151-4.) Verse 14. Dr. John HEWIT with Sir Harry Slingsby had been executed for conspiracy against Cromwell, 8th June, 1658. The Earl of Strafford’s death was May 12th, 1641; and that of Laud, January 10th, 1644. Verse 15. DUN was the name of the Hangman at this time, frequently mentioned in the _Rump_ ballads. Jack Ketch was his successor: Gregory had been Hangman in 1652. Pages 134, 376. _I’ll go no more to the Old Exchange._