History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Death of Elizabeth, Volum 9

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C. Scribner and Company, 1870
 

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Pàgina 242 - Highness's letter, she fell into some passion with the water in her eyes, and therewith she drew us with her into her bedchamber, where she complained for that your Highness did not answer her expectation for admitting her into your presence forthwith.
Pàgina 403 - God came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance. Saint David was an, adulterer, and so was she. Saint David committed murder in slaying Uriah for his wife, and so did she. But what is this to the matter ? The more wicked she be, her subjects should pray for her to bring her to the spirit of repentance.
Pàgina 143 - Queen,' he wrote the morning after the Lords' departure, ' it shall be to little purpose to me to have access to her, or to treat with her according to my instructions. It is to be feared that this tragedy will end in the Queen's person after this coronation, as it did begin in the person of David the Italian and the Queen's husband.
Pàgina 601 - I doubt much, my Harry, whether that the victory were given me more joyed me, or that you were by God appointed the instrument of my glory ; and I assure you for my country's good, the first might suffice, but for my heart's contentation, the second more pleased me.
Pàgina 244 - ... she seemeth to regard no ceremonious honour beside the acknowledging of her estate regal : she showeth a disposition to speak much, to be bold, to be pleasant, and to be very familiar. She showeth a great desire to be avenged of her enemies ; she...
Pàgina 83 - She did depart then with an untrue train, And then in haste an culverin they let craik, To teach their feiris to know the appoint time About the Kinge's lodging for to clap. To dance that night they said she should not slack, With leggis...
Pàgina 244 - The thing that most she thirsteth after is victory, and it seemeth to be indifferent to her to have her enemies diminished either by the sword of her friends, or by the liberal promises and rewards of her purse, or by...
Pàgina 391 - Queen their sovereign objected against them, and their allegiances ; for so much as there has been nothing deduced against them, as yet, that may impair their honour or allegiances ; and, on the other part, there had been nothing sufficiently produced nor shown by them against the Queen, their sovereign, whereby the Queen of England should conceive or take any evil opinion of the Queen, her good sister, for anything yet seen...
Pàgina 483 - Majesty and to the Catholic religion. One day it seems as if the Queen of England would allow the marriage ; the next she will not hear of it. Leicester is said to take the Duke's part, the Duke giving him hopes that after the expected changes he will be allowed to keep his present position, and even to marry the Queen. Last Saturday the Queen of England was in such alarm that she told Leicester emphatically that the marriage between the Duke and the Queen of Scots should not be. She said that if...
Pàgina 54 - ... their present circumstances, she would maintain them openly in resistance to their sovereign. Yet it was impossible to sit still; and Sir William Kirkaldy, of Grange, was selected in Murray's absence to feel the temper of the English Government. The day after Ainslie's supper, Grange wrote thus to Cecil:— ' It may please your Lordship to let me understand what will be your sovereign's part concerning the late murder committed among us; for albeit her Majesty was slow in all our last trouble,...

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