or raised an army of Protestants to imprison the
Pope! who branded his German allies by the novel and odious name of
Lutherans. A chain of similar facts may be framed out of modern history.

The "Rump," as they were called by every one but their own party, became
a whetstone for the wits to sharpen themselves on; and we have two large
collections of "Rump Songs," curious chronicles of popular feeling![327]
Without this evidence we should not have been so well informed
respecting the phases of this portentous phenomenon. "The Rump" was
celebrated in verse, till at length it became "the Rump of a Rump of a
Rump!" as Foulis traces them to their dwindled and grotesque
appearance. It is pourtrayed by a wit of the times--

The Rump's an old story, if well understood,
'Tis a thing dress'd up in a parliament's hood,
And like it--but the tail stands where the head shou'd!
'Twould make a man scratch where it does not itch!
They say 'tis good luck when a body rises
With the rump upwards; but he that advises
To live in that posture, is none of the wisest.

Cromwell's hunting them out of the House by military force is alluded
to--

Our politic doctors do us teach,
That a blood-sucking red-coat's as good as a leech
To relieve the head, if applied to the breech.

In the opening scene of the Restoration, Mrs. Hutchinson, an honest
republican, paints with dismay a scene otherwise very ludicrous. "When
the town of Nottingham, as almost all the rest of the island, began to
grow mad, and declared themselves in their desires of the king;" or, as
another of the opposite party writes, "When the soldiery, who had
hitherto made _clubs trumps_, resolved now to turn up the _king of
hearts_ in their affections," the rabble in town and country vied with
each other in burning the "Rump;" and the literal emblem was hung by
chains on gallowses, with a bonfire underneath, while the cries of "Let
us burn the Rump! Let us roast the Rump!" were echoed everywhere. The
suddenness of this universal change, which was said to have maddened the
wise, and to have sobered the mad, must be ascribed to the joy at
escaping from the yoke of a military despotism; perhaps, too, it marked
the rapid transition of hope to a restoration which might be supposed to
have implanted gratitude even in a royal breast! The feelings of the
people expected to find an echo from the throne!

"The Rump," besides their general resemblance to the French anarch