Queen Elizabeth and Her Times: A Series of Original Letters, Selected from the Inedited Private Correspondence of the Lord Treasurer Burghley, the Earl of Leicester, the Secretaries Walsingham and Smith, Sir Christopher Hatton, and Most of the Distinguished Persons of the Period, Volume 1Thomas Wright |
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Page 298 - 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 299 - ... the Togati, of an honest, stout heart, and such a one, that, upon occasion, would have fought for his prince and country, for he had the charge of the queen's person, both in the court and in the camp at Tilbury.
Page 407 - I ought to have done ; the which is the thing that I do now chiefliest repent. When I am gone, forget my condemning, and forgive, I charge you, my false accusers, as, I protest to God, I do ; but have nothing to do with them, if they live. Surely, Bannister dealt no way but honestly and truly.
Page 152 - ... 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 311 - 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. " In looking upon her cloth of estate,6 1 noted this sentence embroidered, En ma fin est mon commencement, which is a ryddil I understande not.
Page 498 - 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 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 310 - 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 209 - Throckmorton's influence over Leicester, Cecil wrote to Smith, 'I think my Lord well able to judge what is meet or unmeet, and doth use Master Throckmorton friendly because he doth show himself careful and devoted to his lordship. What is said of me I think I cannot know ; but this I am assured of, that I have no affection to be of a party, but for the Queen's Majesty, and I will always travail to accord noblemen, and not to minister devices of discord.