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Wife to Mr. Milton. A Novel

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I should quote a good description:

Colonel Oliver Cromwell was as yet
a person of little account in the Commons,
being hasty-mouthed, rude, without eloquence,
and a by-word because of his massacre of the
Queen's bears, which she had brought from Holland.
For, finding the citizens of Uppingham in Rutlandshire
baiting these bears upon the Lord's Day,
in the height of their sport he had caused
the bears to be seized, tied to a tree and shot;
which was poor sport indeed.
His opinion at this time he cunningly enclosed
in a single phrase: "I can tell you, sirs,
what I would not have, though not what I would!"