108 LIFE, TIMES, AND SCIENTIFIC LABOURS [1645. 



that no man was so much for the absolute power of a 

 King as Aristotle. Desiring the book out of the King s 

 hand, he told the King he would show him one re 

 markable passage to that purpose ; turning to that place 

 that had this verse, viz. : 



&quot; A king can kill, a king can save, 

 A king can make a lord a knave, 

 And of a knave, a lord also, &c.&quot; 



&quot; Whereupon there were divers new-made Lords who 

 slunk out of the room, which the King observing, told 

 the Marquis 



&quot; My Lord, at this rate you will drive away all my 

 nobility.&quot; 



&quot; I protest unto your Majesty,&quot; the Marquis replied, 

 u I am as new a made lord as any of them all, but I 

 was never called knave and rogue so much in all my 

 life, as I have been since I received this last honour ; 

 and why should they not bear their shares ?&quot; 



An incident is related as occurring during one of the 

 entertainments given to the royal visitor, which is too 

 characteristic to be omitted. A dessert of Welsh grown 

 fruit having been provided, had to be presented to the 

 King. Sir Thomas Somerset, the Marquis s brother, 

 living at Troy House, five miles from Raglan, delighted 

 much in fine gardens and orchards, ordering and re 

 plenishing them with all the varieties of choicest fruits. 

 He sent his brother a present of fair, ripe fruit, which 

 the Marquis could not suffer to be presented to the 

 King by any other hands than his own, the particulars 

 of which are circumstantially detailed by Dr. Bayly, 

 who was very likely an eye-witness. He says : &quot; In 

 comes the Marquis to the King, at the latter end of the 

 supper, led by the arm, having such a goodly presence 

 with him, that his being led became him, rather like 

 some ceremony of state, than show of impotence ; and 



