 Spanish lady sent as presents to his wife a profusion of jewels and other valuables, amongst which was her portrait drawn in green, a beautiful tapestry bed, wrought in gold by her own hands, and several casks full of plate, money, and other treasure.  Notitiæ Ludæ: or, Notices of Louth ... - Page 257by Robert Slater Bayley - 1834 - 303 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Cayley Illingworth - Classical antiquities - 1808 - 112 pages
...way." Shenston. ON Sir John Bolle's departure from Cadiz, the Spanish lady sent as presents to his wife a profusion of jewels and other valuables, amongst...several casks full of plate, money, and other treasure. Some articles are still in possession of the family, though her picture was unfortunately, and by accident,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Anecdotes - 1832 - 846 pages
...seclusion. On Sir John Bolle's departure from Cadiz, the devoted Spaniard sent, as presents to his wife, a profusion of jewels and other valuables, amongst which was her portrait, taken as she was, dressed in green; a beautiful tapestry-bed, wrought in gold by LEO END OF THE OREEX... | |
 | Robert Slater Bayley - Louth (England) - 1834 - 334 pages
...leave nothing to the panegyrist. And yet Sir John was famous. In the expedition against Cadiz, 1596, (after his return from which queen Elizabeth knighted...near to which fear has often seen her sitting, and chaunting soft laments to her friend the moon. In the collections of ancient English poetry by Percy,... | |
 | English literature - 1846 - 604 pages
...jewels and other valuables, amongst which was her portrait drawn in green, a beautiful tapestry-bed wrought in gold by her own hands, and several casks full of plate, money, and other treasure ; some of which articles are still in possession of the family, though her picture was unfortunately,... | |
 | English literature - 1846 - 614 pages
...about this period ;' adding that after his departure from Cadiz, ' She sent, as presents to his wife, a profusion of jewels and other valuables, amongst...which was her portrait drawn in green, a beautiful tapestry-bed wrought in gold by her own hands, and several casks full of plate, money, and other treasure... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1846 - 606 pages
...about this period ;' adding that after his departure from Cadiz, ' She sent, as presents to his wife, a. profusion of jewels and other valuables, amongst...which was her portrait drawn in green, a beautiful tapestry-bed wrought in gold by her own hands, and several casks full of plate, money, and other treasure... | |
 | 1847 - 574 pages
...that the lady also " sent her portrait drawn in green, a beautiful tapestry bed, wrought in gold with her own hands, and several casks full of plate, money, and other treasure : That some articles are still (1808) in possession of the family, although her picture was unfortunately,... | |
 | English literature - 1847 - 584 pages
...The like fall unto thy share, most fair lady.'" The work above quoted adds that the lady also " sent her portrait drawn in green, a beautiful tapestry bed, wrought in gold with her own hands, and several casks full of plate, money, and other treasure : That some articles... | |
 | Joseph S. Moore - Ballads, English - 1853 - 900 pages
...Hlingworth, ' On Sir John Bolle's departure from Cadiz, the Spanish lady sent, as presents to his wife, a profusion of jewels and other valuables, amongst which was her portrait, drawn in green, plate, money, and other treasure. Some articles are still in the possession of the family, though her... | |
 | Thomas Percy - Ballads, English - 1859 - 728 pages
...mentions some very interesting gifts of the Spanish lady : — " She sent, as presents to his wife, a profusion of jewels and other valuables, amongst...which was her portrait drawn in green, a beautiful tapestry-bed wrought in gold by her own hands, and several cases full of plate, money, and other treasures... | |
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