XIX. FAIR HOPES.

A TRAVELLER who had been newly robbed inquired of the first gentleman he met, who also was in a melancholy humour, (a cause having lately gone against him,) where he might find a justice of peace, to whom the gentleman replied: You ask for two things together, which singly and severally are not to be had. I neither know where justice is, nor yet where peace is to be found.

Let us not make the condition of our land worse than it was; Westminster Hall was ever open, though the proceedings of justice therein were much interrupted and obstructed with military impressions. Peace, we confess, hath been a stranger unto us a long time, heart-burnings remaining when house-burnings are quenched; but now, blessed be God, we are in a fair probability of recovering both, if our sins and ingratitude blast not our most hopeful expectations.