with whom we
saw him first. Most likely at this time George Fox was still a
prisoner in the Castle. If so, one of the very first things Richard
did, we may be sure, was to climb the many stone steps up to the
Castle and seek his friend in his cheerless prison. The fire smoke and
the rain would be forgotten by both men as they talked together, and
George Fox's face would light up as he heard the story of the lashings
that disappeared and the beatings that left no bruise. He was not a
man who laughed easily, but doubtless he laughed once, at any rate, as
he listened to Richard's story, when he heard of the huzzaing sailors
whose hats fell off into the water because they were so energetically
sure that 'Sir Edward was a very merciful man.'

FOOTNOTES:

[38] The Roman Catholic gentry used sometimes to alarm their
Protestant neighbours with blood-curdling announcements that the good
times of Queen Mary were coming back, and 'faggotts should be deere
yet' (G.M. Trevelyan, _England under the Stuarts_, p. 87).

XXVII. TWO ROBBER STORIES. WEST AND EAST

_'They were changed men
themselves, before they went out
to change others'--W. PENN,
Testimony to George Fox._

_'But when He comes to reign,
whose right it is, then peace and
goodwill is unto all men, and no
hurt in all the holy mountain of
the Lord is seen.'--G. FOX._

_'Wouldst thou love one who never died for thee,_
_Or ever die for one who had not died for thee?_
_And if God dieth not for Man and giveth not Himself_
_Eternally for Man, Man could not exist, for Man is Love_
_As God is Love. Every kindness to another is a little death_
_In the Divine Image, nor can man exist but by brotherhood.'_
_W. BLAKE, 'Jerusalem.'_

_'England is as a family of
prophets which must spread over
all nations, as a garden of
plants, and the place where the
pearl is found which must enrich
all nations with the heavenly
treasure, out of which shall the
waters of life flow, and water all
the thirsty ground, and out of
which nation and dominion must go
the spiritually weaponed and armed