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Page 35 - He speaks French, English, and Latin, and a little Italian, plays well on the lute and harpsichord, sings from book at sight, draws the bow with greater strength than any man in England, and jousts marvellously.
Page 35 - His Majesty is the handsomest potentate I ever set eyes on; above the usual height, with an extremely fine calf to his leg, his complexion very fair and bright, with auburn hair combed straight and short, in the French fashion, and a round face so very beautiful, that it would become a pretty woman, his throat being rather long and thick.
Page 72 - ... peopling of 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 259 - And now, therefore, with the eyes of my heart sore weeping, and bewailing my most devilish life past, I acknowledge myself to have most wickedly rebelled against God, and most undutifully...
Page 1 - Exeter, calling his son before him, tied him in a " lyem," and delivered him to one of his servants, to be carried about the town as one of his hounds, and...
Page lxxxvi - Sitting at meate, before he put one morsell into his mouth, he used to slice a portion above the dayly alines, and send it namely to some begger at his gate, saying, it was meete to serve Christ first...
Page lvii - Cornwall, leaving one only in each steeple, which was to call the people to church. And this partly to prevent the like insurrection for the future, and partly to help to defray the charges the King had been at among them.
Page lxxxvii - I have indeed made peace with the queen at her desire; but I have not forgotten the royal dignity of my ancestors. Ulster was theirs, and shall be mine. With the sword they won it; with the sword I will maintain it.
Page lvi - Yes, said the mayor, doubtless they are. Well, said the provost, get up speedily ; for they are prepared for you. I hope, answered the mayor, you mean not as you speak. In faith, saith the provost, there is no remedy ; for you have been a busy rebel ; and so he presently hung him up.
Page xcv - Well might he designate the policy by which the country had been hitherto governed as " cowardly," and contemn the practice of promoting division between the native princes, which was still practised. He adds : " So far hath that policy, or rather lack of policy, in keeping dissensions among them...