ANECDOTES, MEMOIRS,

ALLEGORIES, ESSAYS,

AND

POETICAL FRAGMENTS;

TENDING TO

AMUSE THE FANCY, AND INCULCATE MORALITY,

BY MR. ADDISON,

VOL, III,

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EXTRAORDINARY ANECDOTE

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OF CHARLES THE SECOND.

HE King, when at Bruffels, being defirous and refolved to fee his fister the Princess of Orange, but withal under a neceffity to make the journey with the utmost secrecy, did communicate his design to no person whatsoever. He ordered Fleming, (a fervant of the Earl of Wigton) who was in his service, and of whose fidelity he neither then nor ever after did doubt, fecretly to provide a couple of good horses, and have them ready at a certain place and time of the next enfuing night, by his Majesty appointed: that Fleming, with these horses, should remain alone till he heard from the King.