The twelve good rules. ‘A constant one’ (i.e. picture) ‘in every house was “King Charles’ Twelve Good Rules.”’ (Bewick’s _Memoir_, ‘Memorial Edition,’ 1887, p. 262.) This old broadside, surmounted by a rude woodcut of the King’s execution, is still prized by collectors. The rules, as ‘found in the study of King Charles the First, of Blessed Memory,’ are as follow:— ‘1. Urge no healths; 2. Profane no divine ordinances; 3. Touch no state matters; 4. Reveal no secrets; 5. Pick no quarrels; 6. Make no comparisons; 7. Maintain no ill opinions; 8. Keep no bad company; 9. Encourage no vice; 10. Make no long meals; 11. Repeat no grievances; 12. Lay no Wagers.’ Prior, _Misc. Works_, 1837, iv. 63, points out that Crabbe also makes the ‘Twelve Good Rules’ conspicuous in the _Parish Register_ (ll. 51–2):— There is King Charles, and all his Golden Rules, Who proved Misfortune’s was the best of schools. Her late Majesty, Queen Victoria, kept a copy of these rules in the servants’ hall at Windsor Castle. the royal game of goose. The ‘Royal and Entertaining Game of the Goose’ is described at length in Strutt’s _Sports and Pastimes_, bk. iv, ch. 2 (xxv). It may be briefly defined as a game of compartments with different titles through which the player progresses according to the numbers he throws with the dice. At every fourth or fifth compartment is depicted a goose, and if the player’s cast falls upon one of these, he moves forward double the number of his throw. While broken tea-cups. Cf. the _Description of an Author’s Bedchamber_, p. 48, l. 18:— And five crack’d teacups dress’d the chimney board. Mr. Hogan, who repaired or rebuilt the ale-house at Lissoy, did not forget, besides restoring the ‘Royal Game of Goose’ and the ‘Twelve Good Rules,’ to add the broken teacups, ‘which for better security in the frail tenure of an Irish publican, or the doubtful decorum of his guests, were embedded in the mortar.’ (Prior, _Life_, 1837, ii. 265.) Shall kiss the cup. Cf. Scott’s _Lochinvar_:— The bride kissed the goblet: the knight took it up, He quaff’d off the wine and he threw down the cup. Cf. also _The History of Miss Stanton_ (_British Magazine_, July, 1760).—‘The earthen mug went round. _Miss touched the cup_, the stranger pledged the parson,’ etc. Between a splendid and a happy land. Prior compares _The Citizen of the World_, 1762, i. 98:—‘Too much commerce may injure a nation as well as too little; and . . . there is a wide difference between a conquering and a flourishing empire.’ To see profusion that he must not share. Cf. _Animated Nature_, iv. p. 43:—‘He only guards those luxuries he is not fated to share.’ [Mitford.]