Note 51 — APPENDIX A
Reading edition
This letter ends with the following sentences: “‘To fear God, and honour the King,’ were injunctions so closely tack’d together that they seem to make but one and the same command; a man may as well pretend to be a good Christian without fearing God as a good subject without honouring the King”.
“‘Deo, Patriæ, et Amicis,’ was your great-grandfather, Sir Bevil’s motto—in three (? these) words he has added to his example a rule, which in following you can never err in any duty of life. The brightest courage and the gentlest disposition is part of Lord Clarendon’s character of him; so much of him you have begun to show us already; and the best wish I can make for you is to resemble him as much in all but his untimely fate.”