Note 799 — Chapter XI · THE PARLIAMENT, THE COMMONWEALTH, AND THE PROTECTORATE—continued. THE PEACE NEGOTIATIONS.
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Next day Cromwell entertained the Dutch ambassadors and their wives to a sumptuous banquet, and after dinner he passed them a paper with the remark, “We have hitherto exchanged many papers, but in my opinion this is the best.” It was the first verse of Psalm cxxxiii., which they all then sang together solemnly—
“Behold, how good a thing it is, And how becoming well, Together such as brethren are In unity to dwell.”
Verbael, 419. Aitzema, iii. 927. Geddes, i. 422.