THE KING’S ARMS.

When Charles II. was going home one night drunk, and leaning upon the

shoulders of Sedley and Rochester, one of them asked him what he

imagined his subjects would think if they could behold him in that

pickle.--“Think!” said the king, “that I am my arms, supported by two

beasts.”

Vol. II.--29.

[Illustration: ~Keston Cross.~

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