Excerpt from Lives of the Queens of England of the House of Hanover, Vol. 1 of 2 IN the reign of George 11. There lived a Wiltshire gentle man, named Paul Methuen, who had a passion for reading the weary dreary novels of his time. Queen Caroline loved to rally him on this weakness, and one day asked him what he had last been reading. May it please your Majesty, said Paul, I have been reading a poor book on a poor subject, the kings and queens of England. As far as the quality of the book is concerned, I shall, perhaps, be found to have furnished one which might be catalogued in Paul Methuen's words to Caroline. If any portions of its contents escape such characterising, it will probably be those which I have cited in the words of writers who were sometimes the Witnesses of, at others the actors in, the scenes they describe. Whatever there is of merit, it is only there to be found, and I have no part therein. I am not like those dull old Roman gentlemen, who nightly attended sociable parties, whither, being witless themselves, they took their wittiest slaves to amuse the. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.