To Paris for to ride-a.”
[70] Louis the XIIIth, for no superior virtues surnamed “Le Juste.” I have seen it somewhere observed that he chose his ministers for extraordinary reasons: Richlieu, because he could not govern his kingdom without him; Des Noyers, for psalm-singing; and le duc de Zuynes, for being an expert bird-catcher.
The satire of Corbet seems to justify the remark.
He was born 1601; married Anne of Austria 1615; and died at St. Germain’s 1643.
[71] Upon a similar declaration being issued by Charles in 1633, “one Dr. Dennison,” says lord Strafford’s garrulous correspondent, “read it here (London), and presently after read the ten commandments; then said, ‘Dearly beloved, you have now heard the commandments of God and man: obey which you please.’”
Strafford Papers, vol. i. 166. fol.
[72] Whalley’s Ben Jonson, vol. v. 299.
[73] Dugdale’s Baronage, vol. ii. p. 444.
[74] See his Poems, p. 1657.
[75] Howell’s Letters, p. 64. ed. 1650. This fool, quasi knave, whose surname was Armstrong, had his coat pulled over his ears, and was discharged of his office, for indignity to archbishop Laud.