History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Death of Elizabeth, Volume 8Longmans, Green, 1868 - Great Britain |
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Page 379 - My heart is disquieted within me, and the fear of death is fallen upon me. 5 Fearfulness and trembling are come upon me, and an horrible dread hath overwhelmed me. 6 And I said, O that I had wings like a dove! for then would I flee away, and be at rest.
Page 58 - ... as the very carcasses they spared not to scrape out of their graves ; and if they found a plot of watercresses or shamrocks, there they flocked as to a feast for the time, yet not able long to continue there withal; that in short space there were none almost left, and a most populous and plentiful country suddenly left void of man and beast...
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Page 355 - Madam, soucy* ye not we are here of the principal of your Grace's nobility and council, that shall not find the mean well to make your Majesty quit of him without prejudice of your son ? and albeit that my Lord of Murray, here present, be little less scrupulous for a Protestant than your Grace is for a Papist, I am assured he will look through his fingers, and will behold our doings, and say nothing thereto.
Page 400 - to be made an earl unless I may be better and higher than an earl, for I am in blood and power better than the best of them ; and I will give place to none but my cousin of Kildare, for that he is of my house. You have made a wise earl of M'Carty More. I keep as good a man as he. For the Queen I confess she is my Sovereign, but I never made peace -with her but by her own seeking. Whom- am I to trust ? When I came to the Earl of Sussex on safe' conduct he offered me the courtesy of a handlock.
Page 168 - Queen and her ministers," the council found themselves compelled to desire her Majesty ' by some exterior act to show some remission of her displeasure to the Lady Catherine and the Earl of Hertford.' Further — for it was time to speak distinctly, and her Majesty's mode of dealing in such matters being better known than appreciated — she was requested, after considering these advices, to choose which of them she liked, and put them in execution in deeds and not pass them over in consultations...
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Page 254 - Crown matrimonial, partly for that he hath assured knowledge of such usage of herself, as altogether is intolerable to be borne, which, if it were not overwell known, we would both be very loth to think that it could be true. To take away this occasion of slander, he is himself determined to be at the apprehension and execution of him whom he is able manifestly to charge with the crime, and to have done him the most dishonour that can be to any man, much more being as he is.
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