Frases de Carlos II de Inglaterra

Carlos II foi o Rei da Inglaterra, Escócia e Irlanda de 1660 até sua morte. Seu pai Carlos I foi executado no Palácio de Whitehall em 31 de janeiro de 1649, no auge da Guerra Civil Inglesa. O parlamento escocês o proclamou rei, porém Oliver Cromwell o derrotou na Batalha de Worcester, em 3 de setembro de 1651 e Carlos fugiu para a Europa continental. Cromwell se transformou no governante da Inglaterra, Escócia e Irlanda; Carlos passou nove anos em exílio na França, Províncias Unidas e nos Países Baixos Espanhóis.

Após a morte de Cromwell em 1658, uma crise política resultou na restauração da monarquia, com Carlos sendo convidado a retornar para a Grã-Bretanha. Em 29 de maio de 1660, seu aniversário de trinta anos, ele foi recebido em Londres com grande aclamação pública. Depois disso, todos os documentos legais foram datados como se ele tivesse sucedido seu pai em 1649.

O parlamento inglês aprovou leis conhecidas como o Código Clarendon, criado para fortalecer a posição da restabelecida Igreja Anglicana. Ele concordou com o código, mesmo sendo a favor de uma política de tolerância religiosa. A principal questão estrangeira do início de seu reinado foi a Segunda Guerra Anglo-Holandesa. Em 1670, assinou o Tratado Secreto de Dover, uma aliança com o seu primo Luís XIV de França. O rei francês concordava em auxiliar o inglês na Terceira Guerra Anglo-Holandesa e pagar uma pensão a Carlos, em troca Carlos prometia se converter ao catolicismo em uma data futura não especificada.

Ele tentou em 1672 introduzir liberdade religiosa aos católicos e dissidentes protestantes, com sua Real Declaração de Indulgência, porém o parlamento inglês forçou sua retirada. Em 1679, as revelações de Tito Oates sobre um suposto "Complô Papista" iniciaram a Crise da Exclusão quando se descobriu que o irmão do rei, Jaime, Duque de Iorque e Albany, era um católico. A crise viu o surgimento de partidos Whig pró-exclusão e Tory antiexclusão. Carlos se aliou aos Tories e, após a descoberta de uma conspiração para matá-lo junto com o irmão em 1683, alguns líderes Whigs foram mortos ou exilados. Carlos dissolveu o parlamento em 1681, reinando sozinho até morrer em 1685. Não teve nenhum filho com sua esposa Catarina de Bragança, apesar de ter reconhecido vários ilegítimos, sendo assim sucedido por seu irmão Jaime. Wikipedia  

✵ 29. Maio 1630 – 6. Fevereiro 1685
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Carlos II de Inglaterra: Frases em inglês

“I asked the smith what news? He told me that there was no news that he knew of, since the good news of the beating of the rogues the Scots.”

As quoted by Philibert de Gramont (1701), in Memoirs of the Court of Charles the Second (1846) by Anthony Hamilton, edited by Sir Walter Scott.
Contexto: Mrs. Lane and I took our journey towards Bristol, resolving to lie at a place called Long Marson, in the vale of Esham.
But we had not gone two hours on our way but the mare I rode on cast a shoe; so we were forced to ride to get another shoe at a scattering village, whose name begins with something like Long—. And as I was holding my horse's foot, I asked the smith what news? He told me that there was no news that he knew of, since the good news of the beating of the rogues the Scots. I asked him whether there was none of the English taken that joined with the Scots? He answered, that he did not hear that that rogue Charles Stewart was taken; but some of the others, he said, were taken, but not Charles Stewart. I told him, that if that rogue were taken he deserved to be hanged, more than all the rest, for bringing in the Scots. Upon which he said, that I spoke like an honest man, and so we parted.

“I told him, that if that rogue were taken he deserved to be hanged, more than all the rest, for bringing in the Scots. Upon which he said, that I spoke like an honest man, and so we parted.”

As quoted by Philibert de Gramont (1701), in Memoirs of the Court of Charles the Second (1846) by Anthony Hamilton, edited by Sir Walter Scott.
Contexto: Mrs. Lane and I took our journey towards Bristol, resolving to lie at a place called Long Marson, in the vale of Esham.
But we had not gone two hours on our way but the mare I rode on cast a shoe; so we were forced to ride to get another shoe at a scattering village, whose name begins with something like Long—. And as I was holding my horse's foot, I asked the smith what news? He told me that there was no news that he knew of, since the good news of the beating of the rogues the Scots. I asked him whether there was none of the English taken that joined with the Scots? He answered, that he did not hear that that rogue Charles Stewart was taken; but some of the others, he said, were taken, but not Charles Stewart. I told him, that if that rogue were taken he deserved to be hanged, more than all the rest, for bringing in the Scots. Upon which he said, that I spoke like an honest man, and so we parted.

“Let not poor Nelly starve.”

On his deathbed, asking that his favourite mistress, Nell Gwynne, be looked after, as quoted in History of My Own Time (1734), by Gilbert Burnet, Vol.II, Bk.iii, Ch. 17

“If we are understood, more words are unnecessary; if we are not likely to be understood, they are useless.”

To the Earl of Manchester, as quoted in the notes to Hudibras (1674), Part 1, Canto 1, by Samuel Butler, edited by Henry George Bohn, (1859)

“He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.”

As quoted in A History of England (1849) by Thomas Babington Macaulay, Vol. I, Ch. 4, p. 437

“Better than a play!”

On the House of Lords' debate on Lord Ross's Divorce Bill (1610), as quoted in King Charles the Second (1931) by Arthur Bryant