Edward Hyde's From The History of the Rebellion

Best comic strip ever by the way (at least since Calvin and Hobbes and Peanuts)

and look at me look at me ("i can ride a bike with no handlebars" - anyone who can tell me who sings that (without cheating) gets a free drink at Hemingway's!)

and to relate this to the material . . . Oliver Cromwell is not as lucky as Lio . . .

I found this a very interesting read . . . especially since the author was an opponent of Cromwell. It seems as if this a very praiseworthy piece; but at the same time, it's not . . . it seemed like the author tried to be fair . . .

Latin shit (and Italian?) that I like with a translation . . .

ne inimici quidem possunt, nisi ut simul laudent (Whom not even his enemies could curse without praising him)

Ausum eum quae nemo auderet bonus, perfecisse quae a nullo nist a nullo nisi fortissimo perfici possunt (He dared undertake what no good man would have tried, and triumphed where only the strongest men could have succeeded)

And the author uses the word wick so often I can't tell if he means it in a good or bad way . . .

But it was cool to find out that England's enemies feared him.

And Cromwell was a smart man . . . the commonwealth is what matters and how dare judges and lawyors opposse him on principles sence they serve with his blessing . . . a very fearful autocratic idea . . . (that's still used today . . . I personally prefer freedom over security . . . )

I really like the last line:

"In a word, as he had all the wicednessess against which damnation is denounced and for which hellfire is prepared, so he had some virtues which have caused the memory of some men in all ages to be celebrated, and he will be looked opon posterity as a brave, bad man."

Like that . . . mizture of revulsion and respect which you really do not see to often especially when one man is the enemy of the other . . .