ABSTRACT
I "It is said the King being one day importuned by the Duke to undertake things which he thought very dangerous, told him, Brother, I am resolved never to travel again, you may do so if you please." (Rapin de Thoyras, vol. II, book 23, p. 725.)
8 In 1668, the apprentices of London set about "pulling down the bawdy-houses", saying " that they did ill in contenting themselves in pulling down the little bawdy-houses, and did not go and pull down the great bawdyhouse at White Hall." (Pepys, March 24, 25, 1668.)
, Macaulay, History, chap. II.-" The King hath lately paid about £30,000 to clear debts of my Lady Castlemayn's." (Pepys, Dec. 12, 1666.)
6 See Geffroy, p. 164. 6. [The affair was a little more subtle than that. Charles's ambition,
which he pursued stubbornly under the screen of flippancy, was to make himself absolute monarch over a strong England. For this he needed money, and the only way he could get it was by making concessions to Louis. He was playing a dangerous game, but had he lived a few years longer he would probably have succeeded completely, and been in a position to defy France. If his brother had had a tithe of his ability, English history would hive Qeen very different. B. D.]
• See Reresby, p. 74. 7 The Infanta, Dona Catarina, sister of King Alphonso VI of Portugal
passionately disliked; there are innumerable satires on the subject. In vol. II alone of the Luttrell Collection in the British Museum, 1 find three : " A Pleasant Dialogue betwixt Two Wanton Ladies of Pleasure; Or, Tht Dutchess of Ports mouths wqful Farwell to her former Feliciry" (1684-:5), No. 167 ; "The Dutchess of Portsmouths Farwel" (1684-5), No. 168; "Portsmouth Observed and Described," 1684, No. 254.-ln Poems on Affairs qf State, 1703, vol. I, p. 216, 1 note a piece of verse called On his Royal Highness's Voyage beyond Sea, March 3d., 1678, which thus begins :
"R. H. they say is gone to Sea, Design'd for the Hague
But Portsmouth's left behind to be The Nation's Whorish Plague."
