172 The Duchess of Newcastle 



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, 

 v/hen he had been in the countrey 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 joynture 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. 



