Colonel Blacker.
Put your trust in God, my boys, and keep your powder dry.[588:1]
Oliver's Advice. 1834.
Footnotes
[588:1] There is a well-authenticated anecdote of Cromwell. On a certain occasion, when his troops were about crossing a river to attack the enemy, he concluded an address, couched in the usual fanatic terms in use among them, with these words: "Put your trust in God; but mind to keep your powder dry!"—Hayes: Ballads of Ireland, vol. i. p. 191.