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Page 65 - Scotland by post, cloathed like a page, that under this disguise she might see the queen ; as James V. had gone in disguise with his own ambassador to see the duke of Vendome's sister, who should have been his wife. Telling her that her chamber might be kept in her absence, as though she were sick; that none need be privy thereto except lady StrafFord and one of the grooms of her chamber. She appeared to like that kind of language, only answered it with a sigh, saying ; Alas, if I might do it thus...
Page 79 - I that was wont to behold her riding like Alexander — hunting likeDiana — walking like Venus ; the gentle wind blowing her fair hair about her pure cheeks, like a nymph ; sometimes sitting in the shade like a goddess — sometimes singing like an angel — sometime playing like Orpheus. Behold the sorrow of this world ! once amiss hath bereaved me of all.
Page 63 - That same day after dinner, my Lord of Hunsdon drew me up to a quiet gallery, that I might hear some music (but he said that he durst not avow it) where I might hear the Queen play upon the virginals. After I had hearkened...
Page 63 - I answered, the fairness of them both was not their worst faults. But she was earnest with me to declare which of them I judged fairest. I said, she was the fairest queen in England, and mine the fairest queen in Scotland.
Page 64 - She appeared to be surprised to see me, and came forward, seeming to strike me with her hand ; alleging that she used not to play before men, but when she was solitary, to shun melancholy.
Page 79 - While she was yet near at hand, that I might hear of her once in two or three days, my sorrows were the less: but even now my heart is cast into the depth of all misery. I that was wont to behold her riding like Alexander, hunting like Diana, walking like Venus, the gentle wind blowing her fair hair about her pure cheeks...
Page 138 - Twas with some pain we were evuls'd from Colebrook. You may find some of our flesh sticking to the door-posts. To change habitations is to die to them ; and in my time I have died seven deaths. But I don't know whether every such change does not bring with it a rejuvenescence. 'Tis an enterprise; and shoves back the sense of death's approximating, which, tho...
Page 63 - I answered they were both the fairest ladies in their countries; that her Majesty was whiter, but my Queen was very lovely. She inquired which of them was of highest stature. I said, my Queen. 'Then', saith she, 'she is too high; for I myself am neither too high nor too low'.
Page 63 - Then she asked what kind of exercises she used. I answered, that when I received my dispatch, the Queen was lately come from the Highland hunting: that when her more serious affairs permitted, she was taken up with reading of histories: that sometimes she recreated herself in playing upon the lute and virginals. She asked if she played well. I said, "reasonably for a Queen.
Page 63 - She asked me which of them became her best. I answered, in my judgment, the Italian dress: which answer I found pleased her well; for she delighted to show her golden-colored hair, wearing a caul and bonnet, as they do in Italy. Her hair was more reddish than yellow, curled in appearance naturally.