King Charles II could take a joke!

>[The Earl of Rochester](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e3/John_Wilmot.jpg), who was the favorite of [Charles II](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/51/King_Charles_II_by_John_Michael_Wright_or_studio.jpg), one day had the audacity to inscribe the following epigram on the door of the king’s bedchamber: >>”Here lies our sovereign lord the King; >>Whose word no man relies on; >>Who never said a foolish thing; >>And never did a wise one.” >When the king read the description he said, “True, my sayings are my own, but my doings are those of my ministers.” __________________________ **Bonus:** The Wiki page for Charles II (below) quotes him thusly: >"That the matter was easily accounted for: For that his discourse was his own, his actions were the ministry's." Wikipedia’s source for the quotation: >Hume, David (1778) *The History of England from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution in 1688* Volume VIII, London: printed for T. Cadell, p. 212 __________________________ **Source:** Humes, James C. *Speaker's Treasury of Anecdotes About the Famous*. New York: Harper & Row, 1978. 46. Print. __________________________ **Further Reading:** [John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wilmot,_2nd_Earl_of_Rochester) [Charles II of England](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_II_of_England)