--How do we know? Nobody asked them...--
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Oh, come on, Fred. Don't pretend to be more stupid than you are with another so completely disingenuous point. All evidence, from broadsides like 'When The King Enjoys His Own Again' to the popularity of the reopening of the theatres and the astonishing flowering of new drama at the Restoration, one of the greatest and most productive periods in English drama, attests to the fact that the Restoration of the Monarchy was pretty nigh universally welcomed with enormous RELIEF, after nearly 20 years of misery under the tyranny of those of the 'we know what is best for everybody' persuasion so admirably summed up in the tone of the posts of the likes of you.

Have you ever read an essay by Kingsley Amis called "Why Lucky Jim turned right". I commend it to you ~~ he'd got your number, right enough.

~M~