"I am still Ralph Slingsby, though, thanks to my General Monk, cornet of horse no longer, but captain in his favourite regiment.  Let me think. ’Tis but thrice that I have seen thee since we parted at Holwick, you to join the king at Nottingham, I to enrol under my Lord Essex. First, at Edgehill, when I, a mere stripling, lay under the hoofs of Rupert’s horse.  Secondly, at Cropredy Bridge, when I did turn aside the pike that would have let your soul out of the keeping of your body.  Lastly, when at the trial of----"