Therefore His Majesty's advisers have chosen me for this high task, and they could not have chosen a better man.

Although you have been in London, Jack, much longer than you wished it, you are wholly ignorant, of course, in matters of state, and the public weal.' 'Well,' said I, 'no doubt but I am, and all the better for me.

Although I heard a deal of them; for everybody was talking, and ready to come to blows; if only it could be done without danger.

But one said this, and one said that; and they talked so much about Birminghams, and Tantivies, and Whigs and Tories, and Protestant flails and such like, that I was only too glad to have my glass and clink my spoon for answer.' 'Right, John, thou art right as usual.

Let the King go his own gait.