"The whip again! away! 'tis too absurd That thou should'st lash with whip-cord now, but sword. I'm pleased to fancy how the glad compact Of hackney-coachmen sneer at the last act. Hark how the scoffing concourse hence derives The proverb, 'needs must go when the devil drives.' Yonder a whipster cries, ''Tis a plain case, He turn'd us out to put himself i' the place; But, God-a-mercy, horses once, for ye Stood to 't, and turn'd him out as well as we.' Another, not behind him with his mocks, Cries out, 'Sir, faith you were in the wrong box; He did presume to rule, because, forsooth, He's been a horse-commander from his youth; But he must know there's difference in the reins Of horses fed with oats and fed with grains. I wonder at his frolic, for be sure Four hamper'd coach-horses can fling a _Brewer_: But 'Pride will have a fall,' such the world's course is, He who can rule three realms can't guide four horses; See him that trampled thousands in their gore, Dismounted by a party but of four. But we have done with 't, and we may call This driving Jehu, Phaeton in his fall: I would to God for these three kingdoms' sake, His neck, and not the whip, had given the crack." We wonder whether Cromwell remembered the wish conveyed in the last line when the old royalist colonel had to petition the Protector for his deliverance from Yarmouth gaol. The letter he sent (now before us) is headed, "To the Protector, after long and vile durance in prison. May it please your Highness," &c. Hyde Park is mentioned as early as the reign of Edward VI, and was no doubt enclosed long before that period. During the time of the Commonwealth it was put up to auction and sold in lots, the deer alone being valued at near upon a thousand pounds. At that period it extended to the Acton-road one way, and to Knightsbridge the other; the boundary citywards being, as now, near Park-lane, while the distance it extended westward is at this day unknown. The consort of George II. was allowed to possess three hundred acres of this Park in her day, and early writers state that Queen Anne had enclosed thirty acres within Kensington Gardens.