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The morn of the third of September - that date so propitious to Cromwell, so disastrous to Charles - found Crispin the centre of a company of gentlemen in battle-harness, assembled at The Mitre Inn. For a toast he gave them "The damnation of all crop-ears."
-"Sirs," quoth he, "a fair beginning to a fair day. God send the evening find us as merry."