Waverley Novels, Volume 1Ticknor and Fields, 1867 |
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Abbot of Abingdon Amy Robsart 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 favourite fear Flibbertigibbet follow gentleman Giles Gosling gold grace guest Hall hand hastily hath heard heart hither honour horse host hostler Janet knave lady Lady Paget look Lord of Leicester Lord of Sussex lord's madam Master Tressilian Master Varney Michael Lambourne Mike Mumblazen never night noble person pleasure poor present Queen Raleigh replied Lambourne replied Tressilian replied Varney Richard Varney Say's Court secret seemed shew silian Sir Hugh Robsart Sludge speak sword tell thee thine thou art thou hast thought thyself Tony Tony Foster warrant Wayland Smith word worshipful yonder young
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Page 12 - I'm told, is beauty's throne, Where every lady 's passing rare, That Eastern flowers, that shame the sun, Are not so glowing, not so fair. " Then, Earl, why didst thou leave the beds Where roses and where lilies vie, To seek a primrose, whose pale shades Must sicken when those gauds are by? " 'Mong rural beauties I was one, Among the fields wild flowers are fair ; Some country swain might me have won, And thought my beauty passing rare.
Page 14 - In Cumnor Hall, so lone and drear ; And many a heartfelt sigh she heaved, And let fall many a bitter tear. And ere the dawn of day appeared, In Cumnor Hall, so lone and drear.
Page 9 - ... so virtuous a lady was to his tender heart, caused (though the thing, by these and other means, was beaten into the heads of the principal men of the university of Oxford) her body to be reburied in Saint Mary's church in Oxford, with great pomp and solemnity.
Page 256 - And here," she added, giving him a jewel of gold, in the form of a chessman, " I give thee this to wear at the collar.
Page 12 - Mong rural beauties I was one, Among the fields wild flowers are fair; Some country swain might me have won, And thought my beauty passing rare. "But, Leicester, (or I much am wrong,) Or 'tis not beauty lures thy vows j Bather ambition's gilded crown Makes thee forget thy humble spouse.
Page 252 - May it please your grace," said "Walter, hesitating, " it is not for so humble a servant of your Majesty to measure out your bounties ; but if it became me io choose — — " " Thou wouldst have gold, I warrant me," said the Queen, interrupting him ; " fie, young man ! I take shame to say, that, in our capital, such and so various are the means of thriftless folly, that to give gold to youth is giving fuel to fire, and furnishing them with the means of self-destruction.
Page 250 - The two rowers used their oars with such expedition at the signal of the gentleman pensioner that they very soon brought their little skiff under the stern of the queen's boat, where she sat beneath an awning, attended by two or three ladies, and the nobles of her household.
Page 306 - And loosed his love-shaft smartly from his bow, As it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts : But I might see young Cupid's fiery shaft...
Page 306 - 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...
Page 11 - 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?