Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: III. Some, while they live, are rr.nk'd as mad, And are placed in the cold world's ban, Por sending their bright, far-seeing souls Three centuries in the van. They toil in penury and grief Unknown?if not maligned; forlorn, forlorn, bearing the scorn Of the meanest of mankind. But truth, will conquer at the last, Tor round and round we run, And ever the right comes uppermost, And ever is justice done. The situation of Penry, in 1589, was trying in the extreme. " I am toss'd," he says, " from post to pillar, and permitted to have no assurance of quiet in any of her Majesty's territories and dominions." And yet he had a native fondness for tranquil seclusion. " I have other things to do," he writes, " than to be a contentious man?one with whom the whole world should he at debate. I have also a life whereof there is no cause, I thank God, I should be weary." Home had a growing attraction for him, but he had become almost .a stranger in his own dwelling; and his children, atan age of peculiar endearment, were startled at the sound of his voice. To add to his trial and perplexity, he was personally assailed in a treatise by Dr. Some, now Master of Peterhouse, and employed by Whitgift to write down the almost solitary advocate at this time of the cause of the Reformation. Much as he was bent on the salvation of his countrymen, Penry was compelled to suspend his efforts in this direction; to vindicate his own character against the charge of sedition; and, if'possible, to secure legal protection for his family against violent intrusion, and the outrages committed by the coarse and reckless agents of the High Commission. A glance at the pamphlets, published between Dr. Some and Penry, will show their relative position. " The magistrates," says the doctor, " thanks be to God...