Queen Elizabeth and her times, original letters selected from the private correspondence of Burghley [and others ed.] by T. Wright, Volume 1Thomas Wright 1838 |
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Page 296 - Christian than he was, and a better knight of the carpet than he should be : as he lived in a roughling time, so he loved sword and buckler men, and such as our fathers were wont to call men of their hands, of which sort he had many brave gentlemen that followed him, yet not taken for a popular and dangerous person...
Page 333 - Father, you are an aged man, Your head is white, your bearde is gray; It were a shame at these your yeares For you to ryse in such a fray.
Page 152 - Florida, then newly found out in the West Indies. So confident his ambition, that he blushed not to tell Queen Elizabeth " that he preferred rather to be sovereign of a molehill, than the highest subject to the greatest king in Christendom ; " adding, moreover, "that he was assured he should be a prince before his death.
Page 309 - Majestic our soverain is doubled, and thereby I guess what sight might worke in others. Her hair of itself is black, and yet Mr. Knollys told me that she wears hair of sundry colors.
Page 496 - King what chapter I would; and so did I, whereby I perceived it was not studied for. They also made his Highness dance before me, which he likewise did with a very good grace ; a Prince sure of great hope, if God send him life.
Page 150 - Maintaining still himselfe in gallant sort. Being thus esteemed, And every where well deemed, He gain'd the favour of a London dame, Daughter to an alderman, Curtis he was called then, To whom a sutor gallantly he came. When she his person spied, He could not be denied...
Page 308 - Upon this occasion she entered into a pretty disputable comparison between carving, painting, and working with the needle, affirming painting in her own opinion for the most commendable quality. I answered her grace, I could skill of neither of them, but that I have read Pictura to be veritas falsa.
Page 46 - ... without hurting her hood that was upon her head,) yet the inhabitants will tell you there, that she was conveyed from her usual chamber where she lay, to another where the bed's head of the chamber stood close to a privy postern door, where they in the night...
Page 187 - Grace taken unto herself such a wyll to do therin what she lyste, that of late, contrarie to her owne . ordonnannces, as great numbers have repayred to her chappel to hear masse, as sometymes come to the common churches to the sermonde. To have her mynde altered for thys fredom that she desyreth to have all men lyve as theie lyke, she can hardlye be brought, and thinketh it too great a subjection for her, being a prince in her owne countrie, to have her wyll broken therin. The subjects who desyre...
Page 69 - The Scottish Quene was the 10th of this month at Bulloygn, and meaneth to take shypping at Callise. Nether those in Scotland nor we here doo lyke her going home. The Quene's Majestie hath three ships in the north seas to preserve the fyshers from pyratts.