ckness of Conception, great pleasantness of
Wit, with great Variety of Knowledge, more Observation and truer
Judgment of Men than one would have imagined by so careless and easie
a manner as was natural to him in all he said or did. From his own
temper he desired nothing but to be easy himself, and that every body
else should be so; and would have been glad to see the least of his
Subjects pleased, and to refuse no man what he asked._ And a little
below; _Sure no Prince has more Qualities to make him lov'd, with a
great many to make him esteem'd, and all without a Grain of Pride or
Vanity in his Constitution; nor can he suffer Flattery in any kind,
growing uneasy upon the first Approaches of it, and turning it off to
something else. But this Humour has made him lose many great Occasions
of Glory to himself, and Greatness to his Crown, which the
Conjunctures of his Reign conspired to put into his Head, and have
made way for the aspiring Thoughts and Designs of a neighbouring
Prince, which would not have appeared, or could not have succeeded in
the World without the Applications and Arts imployed to manage this
easy and inglorious Humour of the King's._ The Reader will certainly
forgive this long Citation, since now he is able to judge for himself,
whether of the two holds the Memory of King _Charles_ the Second in
the greatest Reverence, Sir _W. T._ who has drawn this true but
tender Character of him, or Monsieur _de Cros_, who out of a Pretence
of borrowing it out of the Memoirs, has made the above-mentioned
invidious Representation of that excellent Prince. If there is any
thing severe in Sir _W. T_'s Character 'tis towards the latter end;
however, 'tis managed with all Decency of Language, and the Truth of
it will serve to atone for the Plainness.

But now behold a new Occasion of Quarrel, upon this Passage in Sir
_W. T_'s Memoirs, p. 336. _the King indeed told me pleasantly, that
the Rogue_ de Cros _had out-witted them all_. To which Monsieur _de
Cros_ replies, p. 43. that if Sir _W. T._ had not made the King speak
these Words, but had said them himself, he would apply to him with as
much Justice as to any man in the World, these Verses, which he had
somewhere read,

_Coquin, ce me dit il, d'un arrogance extreme
Va Cherchir les coquins ailleurs, coquin toi-meme._

Which may be thus rendred into _English_,

_He calls me a Rogue, like an arrogant Elf,
Seek your Rogues, Friend, at home, you're a great one y