The Romance of the Peerage: Or Curiosities of Family History, Volume 1Chapman & Hall, 1848 - Family |
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afterwards appears Birch brother Burghley called Camden Cecil Charles child command Countess of Leicester Court daughter death declared desire Devereux Devonshire died divorce doth doubt Duke Earl of Banbury Earl of Essex Earl of Warwick Earl's Earldom Edward eldest Elizabeth England father favour friends hand hath hear heart heir Henry honour hope House of Lords husband Ireland King Knollys Lady Essex Lady Rich Leicester's letter Lettice Lettice Knollys lived Lord Montjoy Lord of Essex Lord Rich Lord Robert Dudley Lord Vaux Lordship Majesty Majesty's manor marriage married matter Montjoy mother never Nicholas night noble peerage Penelope Penelope Devereux person poisoned Poley present probably Queen Robert Dudley says sent servant Sidney Papers Sidney's Sir Christopher Blount Sir Robert sister taken things Thomas thought tion told unto Viscount Walsingham White wife William writes written
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Page 74 - Flying between the cold moon and the earth, Cupid, all armed : a certain aim he took At a fair vestal, throned by the west ; And loos'd his love-shaft smartly from his bow, As it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts : But I might see young Cupid's fiery shaft Quench'd in the chaste beams of the watery moon ; And the imperial votaress passed on, In maiden meditation, fancy-free.
Page 93 - O bliss fit for a nobler state than me! Envy, put out thine eyes, lest thou do see What oceans of delight in me do flow ! My friend, that oft saw through all masks my woe, Come, come, and let me pour myself on thee.
Page 83 - O, what a noble mind is here o'erthrown ! The courtier's, soldier's, scholar's, eye, tongue, sword : The expectancy and rose of the fair state, The glass of fashion and the mould of form, The observed of all observers, quite, quite down!
Page 95 - Astrophel with Stella sweet Did for mutual comfort meet; Both within themselves oppressed, But each in the other blessed. Him great harms had taught much care, Her fair neck a foul yoke bare; But her sight his cares did banish, In his sight her yoke did vanish. Wept they had, alas, the while, But now tears themselves did smile; While their eyes, by love directed, Interchangeably reflected.
Page 88 - They deem, and of their doom the rumor flies, That poison foul of bubbling Pride doth lie. So in my swelling breast, that only I Fawn on myself, and others do despise; Yet Pride, I think, doth not my soul possess, Which looks too oft in his unflattering...
Page 74 - Yet mark'd I where the bolt of Cupid fell: It fell upon a little western flower, Before milk-white, now purple with love's wound, And maidens call it Love-in-idleness.
Page 94 - New perfumed with flowers fresh growing; ASTROPHEL with STELLA sweet, Did for mutual comfort meet ; Both within themselves oppressed, But each in the other blessed. Him great harms had taught much care; Her fair neck a foul yoke bare: But her sight his cares did banish, In his sight her yoke did vanish.
Page 271 - The masquers were placed in a great concave shell, like mother of pearl, curiously made to move on those waters, and rise with the billow ; the top thereof was stuck with a cheveron of lights, which indented to the proportion of the shell, struck a glorious beam upon them as they were seated one above another, so that they were all seen, but in an extravagant order.
Page 103 - There thousand birds, all of celestial brood, To him do sweetly carol day and night, And with strange notes, of him well understood, Lull him asleep in angelic delight ; Whilst in sweet dream to him presented be Immortal beauties, which no eye may see.
Page 111 - I know already for your forwardness you have deserved rewards and crowns ; and we do assure you, on the word of a prince, they shall be duly paid you. In the...