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Butchery followed automatically ( though with the pretence of legal sanction ) . The victim's ghost had vengeance , in the almost simultaneous killing of Ralegh's kinsman , Sir Peter Carew the younger , by ambushed Fitzgeralds ( August ...
Butchery followed automatically ( though with the pretence of legal sanction ) . The victim's ghost had vengeance , in the almost simultaneous killing of Ralegh's kinsman , Sir Peter Carew the younger , by ambushed Fitzgeralds ( August ...
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... pastime grew very pleasant for the space of three hours , wherein all three of the beasts were killed , whereof one took the Sea , and there was slain with a musket . Business followed sport : ' the next day we played the Marchants ...
... pastime grew very pleasant for the space of three hours , wherein all three of the beasts were killed , whereof one took the Sea , and there was slain with a musket . Business followed sport : ' the next day we played the Marchants ...
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The Essex tragedy had followed , clouding all spirits with despondency and leaving men sensitive and ' nervy ' . And now Ralegh , whose vitality was as inexhaustible as Cecil's was low , deserted Cecil and ran off with Cecil's brother ...
The Essex tragedy had followed , clouding all spirits with despondency and leaving men sensitive and ' nervy ' . And now Ralegh , whose vitality was as inexhaustible as Cecil's was low , deserted Cecil and ran off with Cecil's brother ...
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| Title | Sir Walter Ralegh: The Last of the Elizabethans |
| Author | Edward John Thompson |
| Publisher | Macmillan and Company, Limited, 1935 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 24 Jan 2008 |
| ISBN | 818868130X, 9788188681303 |
| Length | 387 pages |
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