A Character of King Charles the Second

erly be said ever to have had a Favourite, though some might look so at a distance. The present use he might have of them, made him throw Favours upon them, w

, but where he expected some unreasonable thing, great Rewa

st as good a Memory for the Faults of his Ministers as for their Services; and

did not spring from his Resignation to them, but to his

him, he was not displeased to have him lessened. The cunning Observers found this out, and at

th all her Washes, and hath a shrewd guess at her Strayings: So

o digest them) yet in the main, that humour of hearing every body against any body, kept those about him in more awe, than they would have been without it. I do not believe that ever he trusted a

they were liked; so that their Tenure was a little uncertain. His Ministers were to administer Business to him as Doctors do Physick, wrap it up in something to make it less unpleasant; some skilful Digressions were so far from being Impertinent, that they could not many times fix him

is Ministers, and could as easily bear their bei