Capitolo 76
filled the earth.
However it was impossible for Charles to retire himself/herself/themselves, from when Cromwell was
behind him; for Cromwell, as soon as he founded that its enemy had
indeed gone to England, it only enough made a break long to recover from
his/her surprise, and then it did every alacrity to follow him/it. The two armies
so stirred down through the a lot of heart of England, while bringing each
where, as they went, universal terror, confusion and dismay. The whole one
country was thrown in extreme excitement. Every body had called on
to take sides, and thousand you/he/she was made perplexed and undecided what side
to take. Families were separated, brothers separated, fathers and children
it was ready to fight against each other in their alienated zeal, the second for
the Parliament, the first one for the king. The whole country was filled
with gossips, messengers, parties of soldiers that go on and back and
horsemen's troops, with thefts plunderings, assassins and other
actions of the violence without number and all the other elements of
confusion and uneasiness that wake up again the whole population of a country
to terror and anguish, and it damages the a lot of face of nature in duration of
civil war. What men of terrible struggles will make to earn the pleasure
dominate his/her friend to equip! Along the frontiers of England and Wales
there the flows the beautiful River Severn to which it majestically widens
his/her mouth and passages of the Bristol Channel to the sea. One of the
the greatest cities on this river are Worcester. It was in those days
strongly strengthened. It is standing on the oriental side of the river, with
a great bridge the opposite one of the gates that conduct through the Severn in
the direction toward Wales. There are the other bridges on the brook,
both above of and under, and a lot of cities and villages in the neighborhood, the
introducing whole, to durations to the agenda, a delicious scene of industry
and the peace.
Worcester is, perhaps, three hundred miles from the frontiers of