...profligates who disported themselves on the river with " the merry Monarch" Charles II., that King who " Never said a foolish thing, And never did a wise one ;" he who would visit the Mall in St. James's Park and play a match with my Lord Buckingham and Rochester,...

...Six days after, all was in the dust." Rochester, in his epigram, described Charles the Second as one Who never said a foolish thing, and never did a wise one. But it is much easier to discover the foolish things that he did, than the wise things that he said....

...Six days after, all was in the dust." Rochester, in his epigram, described Charles the Second as one Who never said a foolish thing, and never did a wise one. But it is much easier to discover the foolish things that he did, than the wise things that he said....

...his attempt. Well might the Earl of Rochester write of Charles— " Here lies my sovereign lord the king, Whose word no man relies on; Who never said a foolish thing, And never did a wise one." Notwithstanding Blood's outrages—the slightest penalty for which in our days would have been penal...

...favorite, the Earl of Rochester, is not more severe than just : — " Here lies our Sovereign Lord the King, Whose word no man relies on; Who never said a foolish thing, A.nd never did a wise one." After this sketch of the King's character, we must return to Scotland, from which we have been absent...

...if they wished to emulate their " Merry Monarch," (as characterised by the F-arl of Rochester), - " Whose word no man relies on, Who never said a foolish thing, and never did a wise one." They were as careless of their health, wealth, time, and intellect as though there were no Beyond to...

...time Lady Castlemaine, lodged in Whitehall, began her empire over the king of England. That man, " who never said a foolish thing, and never did a wise one," was the slave of this imperious and most impudent of women. She forced him to settle on her an immense...

...brutal platitude. His inscription for the chamber of Charles II. is still remembered: " Here lies our mutton-eating king, Whose word no man relies on; Who...never said a foolish thing, And never did a wise one." Sedley was a poet of the same kind. So was the great Dryden ; but his " dexterous sagacity" knew how...

...at his own request, by his favourite the Earl of Rochester : — " Here lies our sovereign Lord the King, Whose word no man relies on ; Who never said a foolish thing, And never did a wise one." "The matter," Charles wittily replied, "was easily accounted for — his discourse was his own, his...

...summed up in a mock epitaph by his boon companion Rochester : — " Here lies our sovereign lord the king, Whose word no man relies on ; Who never said a foolish thing, And never did a wise one." " Quite true ! " rejoined the king, "for my words are my own, and my acts are my ministers'." The convention...