...his own request, by his witty favourite, the Earl of Rochester, is not more severe than just — " Here lies our Sovereign Lord the King, Whose word...never said a foolish thing, And never did a wise one." After this sketch of the King's character, we must return to Scotland, from which we have been absent...

...Written on the Chamber Door of King Charles II. BY THE EARL OF ROCHESTER. Here lies the mutton-eating king, Whose word no man relies on ; Who never said a foolish thing, Nor ever did a wise one. Mankind punished, The crimes of men began to grow so great, That how to punish...

...obliged to listen to an impertinence of Rochester, who read before his face the following epitaph : " Here lies our sovereign Lord the King, Whose word...never said a foolish thing, And never did a wise one." The ladies who were present never failed to blush and look down on hearing witty inuendos, until the...

...his speech had " The epitaph alluded to is the celebrated epigram made by Rochester on Charles II. It ?g=}@@= \Vho.se word no man relies on, Who never said a foolish thing. And never did a wise one." t The Duchess...

...day took the liberty of writing the following impromptu epigram on his majesty's chamber door : — " Here lies our sovereign lord the king, Whose word...never said a foolish thing, And never did a wise one." " It is very true," replied Charles, after he had read the lines, " my doings are those of my ministers,...

...England from his rule, the epigram of a contemporary might aptly have been engraved on his tomb : — " Here lies our sovereign lord the king, Whose word...never said a foolish thing, And never did a wise one." Yet how weak is even this epigram to express the infamy of a reign, in which the caprice of government...

...his own request, by his witty favourite, the Earl of Rochester, is not more severe than just — " Here lies our Sovereign Lord the King, Whose word...never said a foolish thing, And never did a wise one." After this sketch of the King's character, we must return to Scotland, from which we have been absent...

...day took the liberty of writing the following impromptu epigram on his majesty's chamber door: — " Here lies our sovereign lord the king, Whose word no man relies on; Who never eaid a foolish thing, And never did a wise one." " It is very true," replied Charles, after he had...

...repeated the lines of Rochester's jocular epitaph: " Here lies the mutton-eating king, Whose promise none relies on; Who never said a foolish thing And never did a wise one." "Aye," said O'Connell, laughing, " the debauched old vagabond's answer to that epitaph was admirable....

...repeated the lines of Rochester's jocular epitaph : " Here lies the mutton-eating king, Whose promise none relies on; Who never said a foolish thing And never did a wise one." " Aye," said O'Connell, laughing, "the debauched old vagabond's answer to that epitaph was admirable....