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TWo Captains on the same side in our Civil Warres, Discour∣sing together, one of them (with small cause & without any measure) did intolerably boast of his personal Performances, as if he had been of the Quorum in all considerable actions: at last not ashamed of, but weaned with his own loquacity, He desired the other Captain to relate what ser∣vice
he had done in these wars; To whom he returned, Other men can tell you of that.
We meet with many (living at the sign of the Royalist) who much brag of their passive services (I mean their sufferings) in the late war. But that Spoak in the wheel, which creaketh most, doth not bear the greatest bur∣then in the Cart. The loudest Cryers are not alwaies the largest Loosers.
How much hath Sir Iohn Stowel lost? How many new Gentlemen have started up out of the Estate of that ancient Knight? What hath the Lord Craven lost? Whither more, or more unjustly hard to decide? Others can tell of their and many other mens sufferings, whilest they themselves hold their peace.
Here we dare not speak of him, who, though the greatest looser of all speaketh nothing of himself; And therefore his silence putteth a greater Obligation on us both to pitty him
here on Earth, and pray for him to Heaven.