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Gs, said to him in good humour, "God send you a wise wife!" "That she
may govern you and me!" said the prince. The tutor observed, that "he
had one of his own;" the prince replied, "But mine, if I have one, would
govern your wife, and by that means would govern both you and me!"
Henry, at this early age, excelled in a quickness of reply, combined
with reflection, which marks the precocity of his intellect. His tutor
having laid a wager with the prince that he could not refrain from
standing with his back to the fire, and seeing him forget himself once
or twice, standing in that posture, the tutor said, "Sir, the wager is
won, you have failed twice." "Master," replied Henry, "Saint Peter's
cock crew thrice."--A musician having played a voluntary in his
presence, was requested to play the same again. "I could not for the
kingdom of Spain," said the musician, "for this were harder than for a
preacher to repeat word by word a sermon that he had not learned by
rote." A clergyman standing by, observed that he thought a preacher
might do that: "Perhaps," rejoined the young prince, "for a bishopric!"
The natural facetiousness of his temper appears frequently in the good
humour with which the little prince was accustomed to treat his
domestics. He had two of opposite characters, who were frequently set by
the ears for the sake of the sport; the one, Murray, nicknamed "the
tailor," loved his liquor; and the other was a stout "trencherman." The
king desired the prince to put an end to these broils, and to make the
men agree, and that the agreement should be written and subscribed by
both. "Then," said the prince, "must the drunken tailor subscribe it
with chalk, for he cannot write his name, and then I will make them
agree upon this condition--that the trencherman shall go into the
cellar, and drink with Will Murray, and Will Murray shall make a great
wallet for the trencherman to carry his victuals in."--One of his
servants having cut the prince's finger, and sucked out the blood with
his mouth, that it might heal the more easily, the young prince, who
expressed no displeasure at the