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Page 70 - The Earl told him, on Monday (this being on the Friday). ' For God's sake, let me,' said the King; 'shall I — shall I?' — then lolled about his neck; then—' For God's sake, give thy Lady this kiss for me.
Page 190 - First, that you do not meddle with the main points of government; that is my craft ... to meddle with that were to lessen me.
Page 132 - Durham, standing behind his majesty's chair; and there happened something extraordinary," continues this writer, " in the conversation those prelates had with the king, on which Mr. Waller did often reflect. His majesty asked the bishops, " My lords, cannot I take my subjects' money when I want it, without all this formality of parliament ?" The bishop of Durham readily answered, " God forbid, sir, but you should : you are the breath of our nostrils.
Page 68 - I persuade myself there is as much baseness in him as can be in any man ; for although he be a prince by birth, it seems not to me that there harbours...
Page 80 - I shall leave him dressed to posterity in the colours I saw him in the next progress after his inauguration, which was as green as the grass he trod on, with a feather in his cap, and a horn, instead of a sword, by his side ; how suitable to his age, calling, or person, I leave others to judge from his pictures...
Page 76 - Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty to utter any thing before God : for God is in heaven, and thou upon earth j therefore let thy words be few.
Page 39 - ... gush out of bloud, as if the blud wer crying to the heauen for reuenge of the murtherer, God hauing appoynted that secret super-naturall signe, for tryall of that...
Page 47 - Alban's), and well knowing the advantage of a dangerous secret, would many times cunningly let fall some words, as if he could much amend his fortunes under the Cecilians...
Page 181 - ... that immediately upon the decease of our late sovereign Lord King Charles, the imperial crown of the realm of England, and of all the kingdoms, dominions, and rights, belonging to the same, did by inherent birth-right, and lawful and undoubted succession, descend and come to his most excellent majesty Charles the Second, as being lineally, justly, and lawfully, next heir of the blood royal of this realm...
Page 40 - ... take up any dead man, woman, or child out of his, her, or their grave, or any other place where the dead body resteth, or the skin, bone, or any other part of any dead person...