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... of which then they were very tender , and some meane expressions Essex
used of Blunt , about his being employed in Ireland , and not her amorous
caresses , which age , and in a manner an universall distribution of them had by
this time ...
... of which then they were very tender , and some meane expressions Essex
used of Blunt , about his being employed in Ireland , and not her amorous
caresses , which age , and in a manner an universall distribution of them had by
this time ...
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... no lesse able to act , then counsellours to advise ; in whose choyce ( for the
most part ) wisdome was solely looked upon , not putting by sufficiency , though
accompanied with a meane birth , ' and crooked person , 56 QUEENE
ELIZABETH .
... no lesse able to act , then counsellours to advise ; in whose choyce ( for the
most part ) wisdome was solely looked upon , not putting by sufficiency , though
accompanied with a meane birth , ' and crooked person , 56 QUEENE
ELIZABETH .
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companied with a meane birth , ' and crooked person , as it chanced in a father
and sonne of the Cecills , both incomparable for prudence . It being sometimes
necessary to make wise men noble , where noblemen are too lazy and addicted
to ...
companied with a meane birth , ' and crooked person , as it chanced in a father
and sonne of the Cecills , both incomparable for prudence . It being sometimes
necessary to make wise men noble , where noblemen are too lazy and addicted
to ...
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Not so likely to flatter , if to lye , as the writings of those meane contemporaries ,
that for the most part have imbarked their pens in our English affaires ; who had
still some feare or hope at their elbowes ready - to jog them towards the interest
of ...
Not so likely to flatter , if to lye , as the writings of those meane contemporaries ,
that for the most part have imbarked their pens in our English affaires ; who had
still some feare or hope at their elbowes ready - to jog them towards the interest
of ...
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... Sir Robert Cecill gained leave of the queene to advertise Essex , first of her
being past hope , and after of her death , stopping in the meane time all ships
else , but what came loaden with this fatall intelligence ; and , to secure her
person no ...
... Sir Robert Cecill gained leave of the queene to advertise Essex , first of her
being past hope , and after of her death , stopping in the meane time all ships
else , but what came loaden with this fatall intelligence ; and , to secure her
person no ...
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| Title | Some traditionall memorialls on the reign of Queene Elizabeth [by Francis Osborne Volume 1 of Secret History of the Court of James the First, Sir Walter Scott |
| Author | Walter Scott |
| Publisher | J. Ballantyne, 1811 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 18 Oct 2007 |
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