Abstract
General Oliver Cromwell returned from Ireland in May 1650 at the Parliament’s behest and had a triumphant reception in London on the last day of the month. He was appointed second-in-command to General Fairfax on 12 June for the Scottish campaign, and on the withdrawal of Fairfax was promoted to the General’s place on 26 June. He entered Scotland with his army on 22 July. By that time Marvell had evidently finished the Horatian Ode begun in June; it makes no mention of Fairfax and ends before the start of the Scottish campaign. The poet was then in his thirtieth year. His new hero was fifty-one. The infant Commonwealth was eighteen months old.
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