Make choice of you to preach the Word to us?
We wait your pleasure. Time and grace divine
Alike have wings.
Lockyer.
[He hesitates and seems disturbed.]
Cromwell.Speak, speak.
Lockyer [reading from a Bible that he holds in his hand.
Cromwell [interrupting him angrily.
Brother, where find you that. 'Tis a rash text
Lockyer.My lord, 'tis in the Bible.
Cromwell. Where?
Lockyer. Look, read.
It is in Judges, chapter nine, verse eight.
Cromwell.Be still! What bearing hath that text upon
The present state of things? In Holy Writ
Can you find nothing better? Is there not
A verse and chapter with some relevance
To what is happening? As this, for instance:
"Accurst be he who leads the sightless wanderer
Astray."—" The sage is he who dares and doubts."—
"The archangel went forth into the desert