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as well as by the allurements of love and ambi-tion , to win him to compliance. One day,Temple found the prince in very bad humor,repenting that he had ever come to England, andresolute in a few days to leave it: But before hewent, the king, he said, must chuse the terms,on which they should hereafter live together:He was sure it must be like the greatell friendsor the greatest enemies: And he desired Templeto inform his master next morning of these inten-tions. Charles was struck with this menace, andforesaw how the prince’s departure would beinterpreted by the people. He resolved, there-fore, immediately to yield with a good grace ;and having paid a compliment to his nephew’shonesty, he told Temple, that the marriage wasconcluded, and desired him to .inform the dukeof it, as of an affair already resolved on. Theduke seemed surprised ; but yielded a promptobedience: Which, he said, was his constantmaxim to whatever he found to be the king’spleasure. No measure during this reign gavesuch general satisfaction. All parties strove whoshould most applaud it. And even Arlington ,who had been kept out of the secret, told theprince, “ That some things good in themselves,“ were spoiled by the manner of doing them,“ as some things bad were mended by it; but“ he would confess, that this was a thing so“ good in itself, that the manner os doing it“ could not spoil it. ”

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