 | Francis James Child - Ballads, English - 1864 - 348 pages
...his ambition, that he blushed not to tell Queen Elizabeth, 'that he preferred rather to be sovereign of a mole-hill, than the highest subject to the greatest king in Christendom ; ' adding, nioiv*-ver, ' that he was assured he should be a prince betore his death/ * I hope/ said Queen Elizabeth,... | |
 | Richard Nicholls Worth - Plymouth (England) - 1871 - 404 pages
...than a little mad. " 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, and that he was assured he should be a prince before his death." " I hope," said the Queen, " I shall... | |
 | Richard Nicholls Worth - Devon (England) - 1879 - 160 pages
...want of money, and "blushed not to tell Elizabeth to her face" he "preferred rather to be sovereign of a molehill than the highest subject to the greatest king in Christendom, and that he was assured he should be a prince before his death." Humouring his whim, Elizabeth rejoined,... | |
 | Richard Nicholls Worth - Devon (England) - 1879 - 146 pages
...rather to be sovereign of a molehill than the highest subject to the greatest king in Christendom, and that he was assured he should be a prince before his death." Humouring his whim, Elizabeth rejoined, " I hope I shall hear from you when you are settled in your... | |
 | Francis James Child - Ballads, English - 1858 - 714 pages
...'that he preferred rather to be sovereign of a mole-hill, than the highest subject to the grentest king in Christendom;' adding, moreover, 'that he was...should be a prince before his death.' ' I hope,' said Queen Elizabeth, ' 1 shall hear from you, when you are stated in your principality.' ' I will write... | |
 | Richard Nicholls Worth - 1880 - 292 pages
...want of money, and "blushed not to tell Elizabeth to her face" he " preferred rather to be sovereign of a molehill than the highest subject to the greatest king in Christendom, and that he was assured he should be a prince before his death." Humouring his whim, Elizabeth rejoined,... | |
 | Richard Nicholls Worth - Devon (England) - 1883 - 170 pages
...want of money, and "blushed not to tell Elizabeth to her face" he " preferred rather to be sovereign of a molehill than the highest subject to the greatest king in Christendom, and that he was assured he should be a prince before his death." Humouring his whim, Elizabeth rejoined,... | |
 | Francis James Child - Ballads, English - 1886 - 684 pages
...his ambition, that he blushed not to tell Queen Elizabeth, 'that he preferred rather to be sovereign of a mole-hill, than the highest subject to the greatest...should be a prince before his death.' ' I hope,' said Queen Elizabeth, ' I shall hear from you, when you are stated in your principality.' ' I will write... | |
 | Richard Nicholls Worth - Devon (England) - 1895 - 368 pages
...Sebastian of Portugal, in 1578. He it was who told Elizabeth that he would rather be the sovereign of a molehill than the highest subject to the greatest king in Christendom. It was Sir Lewis Stukely, afterwards named ' Judas,' who arrested Ralegh on his return from his last... | |
 | Richard Garnett - Literature - 1899 - 578 pages
...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...should be a prince before his death." "I hope," said Queen Elizabeth, "I shall hear from you, when you are stated in your principality." " I will write... | |
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... 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... 
