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 ſer a man of no learning. The King's Politics

lay in women, and York never loved a Jest.

So they went angry away.

Another time his Lordship going to kiss the

Dutchess of Cleveland as she was going out of

her coach into St. James's Park, his foot flipped,

and he fell upon his breech; but quickly

rifing, he thus expressed himself to her Grace:

By all that's sacred it was bravely done,

Thus to attempt the chariot of the sun,

And then fall down like Phaeton.

His Lordship being one day at court, in company

with the French ambassador, Monsieur

began to applaud his master's grandeur and

conquest, in the following words:

Lorain a day, a week Burgunday won,

Flanders a month; what would a year

have done?

Lorain he stole, by fraud he got Burgunday,

Flanders he bought, by God he'll pay for't

one day.

At this answer of the Earl's, Monsieur was

highly affronted, and told the King that Rochester

had most basely bemeaned his Royal

Master, and required satisfaction. To which

the King said, He knew not what to do with

him,