Of liquors that make flames expire, and shrink
Into their cinders--
--He laboured hard for to bring in
The exploded doctrines of the Florentine,
And taught that to dissemble and to lie
Were vital parts of human policie."

[331] Alluding to a ridiculous rumour, that the King was to receive
foreign troops by a Danish fleet.

[332] Col. Urrey, _alias_ Hurrey, deserted the Parliament, and went
over to the King; afterwards deserted the King, and discovered
to the Parliament all he knew of the King's forces.--_See
Clarendon._

[333] This Sir William Brereton, or, as Clarendon writes the name,
Bruerton, was the famous Cheshire knight, whom Cleveland
characterizes as one of those heroes whose courage lies in
their teeth. "Was Brereton," says the loyal satirist, "to
fight with his teeth, as he in all other things resembles the
beast, he would have odds of any man at this weapon. He's a
terrible slaughterman at a Thanksgiving dinner. Had he been
cannibal enough to have eaten those he vanquished, his gut
would have made him valiant." And in "Loyal Songs" his valiant
appetite is noticed:

"But, oh! take heed lest he do eat
The Rump all at one dinner!"

And Aulicus, we see, accuses him of concealing his bravery in
a hayrick. It is always curious and useful to confer the
writers of intemperate times one with another. Lord Clarendon,
whose great mind was incapable of descending to scurrility,
gives a very different character to this pot-valiant and
hayrick runaway; for he says, "It cannot be denied but Sir
William Brereton, and the other gentlemen of that party,
albeit their educations and course of life had been very
different from their present engagements, and for the most
part very unpromising in matters of war, and therefore were
too much contemned enemies, executed their commands with
notable sobriety and indefatigable industry (virtues not so
well practised in the King's quarters), insomuch as the best
soldiers who encountered with them had no cause to despise
them."--_Clarendon_, vol. ii. p. 147.

[334] "The Scotch Dove" seems never to have recovered from this
metamorphosis, but ever after, among the news