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Abbot of Abingdon Amy Robsart answered Lambourne answered Varney Anthony Foster apartment aught bear Berkshire better betwixt Black Bear Blount called cloak countenance Countess courtier Cumnor Dame Deptford devil Earl of Leicester Earl of Sussex Earl's Elizabeth eyes fair fair lady farrier father favour fear Flibbertigibbet follow gallant gentleman Giles Gosling gold Goldthred grace guest Hall hand hastily hath hither honour horse host Hostler Janet Kenilworth knave lady Lady Paget look Lord of Leicester Lord of Sussex lord's madam Master Tressilian Master Varney Michael Lambourne Mike minced oath Mumblazen never night noble person pleasure poor present Queen Raleigh replied Lambourne replied Tressilian replied Varney Richard Varney Say's Court secret seemed Sir Hugh Robsart speak sword tell thee thine thou art thou hast thought thyself Tony Tony Foster Walter warrant Wayland Smith word worshipful yonder young
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Page 325 - That very time I saw (but thou couldst not), Flying between the cold moon and the earth, Cupid all arm'd : 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 85 - THE dews of summer night did fall; The moon, sweet regent of the sky, Silver'd the walls of Cumnor Hall, And many an oak that grew thereby.
Page 263 - ... her stepping over it dry-shod. Elizabeth looked at the young man," who accompanied this act of devoted courtesy with a profound reverence and a blush that overspread his whole countenance. The queen was confused, and blushed in her turn, nodded her head, hastily passed on, and embarked in her barge without saying a word. " Come along, sir coxcomb," said Blount ; " your gay cloak will need the brush to-day, I wot.
Page 266 - Permission to wear thine own cloak, thou silly boy 1 ' said the Queen. ' It is no longer mine,' said Walter ; ' when your Majesty's foot touched it, it became a fit mantle for a prince, but far too rich a one for its former owner.
Page xix - I rose up with the cheerful morn, No lark more blithe, no flower more gay ; And, like the bird that haunts the thorn, So merrily sung the livelong day. "If that my beauty is but small, Among court ladies all despised, Why didst thou rend it from that hall, Where, scornful earl, it well was prized?
Page 261 - I told you as much before," said Blount; "do, I pray you, my dear Walter, let us take boat and return." " Not till I see the Queen come forth," returned the youth composedly.
Page 269 - ' said Elizabeth, after a moment's recollection, " have we not heard of your service in Ireland ? " " I have been so fortunate as to do some service there, madam," replied Raleigh, "scarce however of consequence sufficient to reach your grace's ears.
Page 261 - After this, amid a crowd of lords and ladies, yet so disposed around her that she could see and be seen on all sides, came Elizabeth herself, then in the prime of womanhood, and in...
Page 263 - He is in attendance on me," said Blount, — "on me, the noble Earl of Sussex's master of horse." " I have nothing to say to that,
Page 262 - ... suffered him to approach the ground over which the queen was to pass somewhat closer than was permitted to ordinary spectators. Thus the adventurous youth stood full in Elizabeth's eye, — an eye never indifferent to the admiration which she deservedly excited among her subjects, or to the fair proportions of external form which chanced to distinguish any of her courtiers. Accordingly, she fixed her keen glance on the youth, as she approached the place where he stood, with a look in which surprise...