I Would Have Been Glad To Have

I Was By Birth A Gentleman, Living Neither In Any Considerable Height, Nor Yet In Obscurity. I Have Been Called To Several Employments In The Nation - To Serve In Parliaments, - And ( Because I Would Not Be Over Tedious ) I Did Endeavour To Discharge The Duty Of An Honest Man In Those Services, To God, And His People's Interest, And Of The Commonwealth; Having, When Time Was, A Competent Acceptation In The Hearts Of Men, And Some Evidence Thereof.

Work Hard, Trust In God, And Keep Your Bowels Open.

Mr. Lely, I Desire You Would Use All Your Skill To Paint My Picture Truly Like Me, And Not Flatter Me At All; But Remark All These Roughnesses, Pimples, Warts, And Everything As You See Me, Otherwise I Will Never Pay A Farthing For It.

Because I Fear God, I Have No Man To Fear.

I Would Have Been Glad To Have Lived Under My Wood Side, And To Have Kept A Flock Of Sheep, Rather Than To Have Undertaken This Government.