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more particularly, and therefore desir'd that Audience either then or at any other time when the King would be most at leisure. I had never before been alone with the King, except once to to thank Him for giving the Canonry to my Tutor, I thank'd his Majesty then with telling him that he had enabled me to make an old Servant happy, and that no Man knew better than himself the pleasure of doing that, He smiled, said He was glad to please me, and should always be so, and there ended that audience. As soon as my Desire of an Audience was made known to the King. at this time, He called me into his Closet directly. He advanced towards me with a very gracious Department, and upon my-- saying, that I had taken the Liberty to desire this Audience to return my Thanks to his Majesty more particularly than I could have done in Publick. The King said, He was very glad to have done a Thing to please me. I said Sr. your Majesty has always shown much Goodness to my Family and to me. I wish I had deserv'd it better. The King said you have deserv'd very well of me, you have done me good Service in the House of Commons. You have behaved well to me and to the publick. and when he had said that he put off at once, the Air of Dignity, with which he first received me, chang'd His Manner into a more familiar Air, and with the greatest Ease and good Humour, and the most open and condescending Countenance (which set me in a moment at my Ease with Him) He ask'd me, what I thought the - University would do. I told the King that I understood They were divided among themselves, But that it seem'd probable that their Choice would end in Mr Harley Lord Oxford's Son The King said, They can chuse nobody, who will do them so much credit as you have done. I bow'd and said Sr. will your [[catchword]] Majesty [[/catchword]]