"Boys do now cry, 'Kiss my Parliament' instead of 'Kiss my arse,' so great and general a contempt is the Rump [Parliament] come to among all men, good and bad."
*If y'all are lucky, this may become a running feature of this blog.
Ripley: welcome! And yes, I know about the online diary, but I felt I was so far behind that it was best (and also, for reasons of portability, easiest) to make use of the paperback set I picked up several years ago at a used bookstore.
