The Fourth Book : Essays and Discourses 141 



LXXXIV 



In some discourse with my Lord, I told him that I did 

 speak sharpest to those I loved best. To which he jestingly- 

 answered, that if so, then he would not have me love him best. 



LXXXV 



After my Lord's return from a long banishment, when he 

 had been in the country some time, and endeavoured to pick 

 up some gleanings of his ruined estate ; it chanced that the 

 widow of Charles, Lord Mansfield, my Lord's eldest son, 

 afterwards Duchess of Richmond, to whom the said Lord of 

 Mansfield had made a jointure of ^2000 a year, died not long 

 after her second marriage. For whose death, though my 

 Lord was heartily sorry, and would willingly have lost the 

 said money, had it been able to save her life ; yet discoursing 

 one time merrily with his friends, was pleased to say, that 

 though his earthly king and master seemed to have forgot 

 him, yet the King of Heaven had remembered him, for he had 

 given him £2000 a year. 



