Mr Dale can serve you, and me, and his principles, as well at Dover as in London." I bent on one knee and kissed his hand for the favour.

When I sought to do the like to Monmouth he was very ready, and received my homage most regally.

As I rose, the King was smiling at the pair of us in a whimsical melancholy way.
"Be off with you, boys," said he, as though we were a pair of lads from the grammar school.

"Ye are both fools; and James there is but indifferently honest.

But every hour's a chance, and every wench an angel to you.