...presents an awful lesson. He says, " I can never forget the inexpressible luxury and prophaneness, gaming and all dissoluteness, and as it were total forgetfulness of God, being Sunday evening, which this day se 'night I was witness of, the king sitting and toying with his...

...but graphic picture of the Court : " I can never forget the inexpressible luxury and prophaneness, gaming and all dissoluteness, and, as it were, total...toying with his concubines, Portsmouth, Cleveland, and Mazarine, &c., a French boy singing love songs, in that glorious gallery, whilst about twenty of...

...are described by Evelyn, an eye-witness, present an awful scene : " I can never forget," says he, " the inexpressible luxury and profaneness, gaming and all dissoluteness, and, as it were, total forgetfulncss of God (it being Sunday evening), which this day se-night I was witness to : the king...

...presents an awful lesson. He says, " I can never forget the inexpressible luxury and prophaneness, gaming and all dissoluteness, and as it were total forgetfulness of God, being Sunday evening, which this day se'night I was witness of, the king sitting and toying with his...

...and added, ' Let not poor Nelly starve.'" A page or two further, Evelyn remarks, " I can never forget the inexpressible luxury and profaneness, gaming,...with his concubines, Portsmouth, Cleveland, Mazarine, etc., a French boy singing love songs in that glorious gallery, whilst about twenty of the great courtiers...

...all out, and — takes the last unction from a popish priest ! " I can never forget," says Evelyn, " the inexpressible luxury and profaneness, gaming,...toying with his concubines, Portsmouth, Cleveland, Mazarin, &c. — a French boy singing love songs in that glorious gallery ; whilst about twenty of...

...for whose restoration he had blessed God. In the winter of 1685, he wrote : — "I can never forget the inexpressible luxury and profaneness, gaming,...with his concubines, Portsmouth, Cleveland, Mazarine, etc., a French boy singing love songs in that glorious gallery, whilst about twenty of the great courtiers...

...for whose restoration he had blessed God. In the winter of 1685, he wrote : — "I can never forget the inexpressible luxury and profaneness, gaming,...with his concubines, Portsmouth, Cleveland, Mazarine, etc., a French boy singing love songs in that glorious gallery, whilst about twenty of the great courtiers...

...himself, can scarcely be conceived. " I can never forget the inexpressible luxury and prophaneness, gaming and all dissoluteness, and as it were total...sitting and toying with his concubines, Portsmouth, Cleaveland, and Mazarine, &c. a French boy singing love songs in that glorious gallery, whilst about...

...preceding : — " I can never forget," he says, " the inexpressible luxury and profaneness, gaming, dissoluteness, and, as it were, total forgetfulness...toying with his concubines, Portsmouth, Cleveland, and Mazarine, &c., a French boy singing love songs in that glorious gallery, whilst about twenty of...