o00 "THE CA VALIER'S PETS."
England was parted into two warlike camps, Royalist and
Roundhead.
 We can see now that there were good and devoted men on
both sides, and of every shade of opinion. We can think
dispassionately of Lord Falkland the Royalist, and Colonel
Hutchinson the Roundhead-of Milton and Andrew Marvel
on the one hand, and Jeremy Taylor on the other. But it
was fearfully difficult then-in the midst of bitter accusations,
hard blows, and cruel wrongs, inflicted almost inevitably by
both the contending parties-to distinguish that there was any
merit, or any quality save base subserviency or turbulent
anarchy, on that side which differed from the faction of the
person speaking.
 It would be no easy task to decide which of the camps
indulged most largely in abusing and slandering the other;
but it belonged to the nature of things, and to the charac-
teristics of the men and their leaders, that the Cavaliers,
taking them all in all, were the most careless and reckless
in the expression of their feelings. It was part of the pro-
fession of every Cavalier, from Prince Rupert downwards, to
be easy-minded and light-hearted, as he was loyal, to the back-
bone. He made it a matter of honour that his joviality
should be a proof that his conscience was clear, and his cause
that of the divine right of kings and the unquestioning
obedience of subjects. The very nickname, crop-eared
knave," which one man applied to his adversary, as opposed
to the term malignant," given by the Puritan to the Cavalier,
showed the light scorn of complacent superiority pitted against
deadly earnestness and desperate condemnation.
 As it happened in the long run, to their mutual profit, the