The ruins of Kenilworth, an historical poemHoulston and Wright, 1857 - 392 pages |
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Page 307 - England, to all the Faithful in Christ, to whom these Presents shall come, GREETING. Whereas Academical Degrees were originally instituted for this Purpose, That men eminent for Knowledge, Wisdom, and Virtue, who have highly merited of the...
Page 358 - To stay ye no longer herein, 1 dare say he hath as fair a library of these sciences, and as many goodly monuments both in prose and poetry, and at afternoons can talk as much without book, as any inn-holder between Brentford and Bagshot, what degree soever he be.
Page 333 - London, and either of the sheriffs, had their several lords of misrule, ever contending, without quarrel or offence, who should make the rarest pastimes to delight the beholders.
Page 341 - ... 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 came and stifled her in her bed, bruised her head very much, broke her neck, and at length flung her down...
Page 349 - It was a sport very pleasant," writes Laneham of the bear-baiting at Kenilworth, " to see the bear with his pink eyes leering after his enemies' approach, the nimbleness and wait of the dog to take his advantage, and the force and experience of the bear again to avoid the assaults.
Page 346 - ... wide ; and high in them live bitterns, curlews, shovelers, hernshaws, godwits, and such like dainty birds, of the presents of Sylvanus, the God of fowl. On the second pair two great silvered bowls, featly apted to the purpose, filled with apples, pears, cherries, filberds, walnuts, fresh upon their branches, and with oranges, pomegranates, lemons, and pippins, all for the gifts of Pomona, Goddess of fruits.
Page 349 - It was a sport very pleasant of these beasts, to see the bear with his pink eyes leering after his enemy's approach, the nimbleness and weight of the dog to take his advantage...
Page 338 - The Princelye plea-|sures, at the Courte | at Kenelwoorth. | That is to saye. \ The Copies of all such verses, \ Proses, or Poeticall inventions, and other | devices of pleasure, as were there devi-|sed, and presented by sundry Gentle-|men, before the QUENES \ MAJESTIE: In | the yeare 1575.
Page 297 - TO a homeless man, who has no spot on this wide world which he can truly call his own, there is a momentary feeling of something like independence and territorial...
Page 338 - CASTL, in Warwik Sheer, in this Soomerz Progress, 1575, iz signified : from a freend officer attendant in the Coourt, unto hiz freend a Citizen, and Merchaunt of London1.