Royal Favourites, Band 1Maxwell, 1865 - 539 Seiten |
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Agnes Sorel Albuquerque Alfonso amongst Anne of Austria appeared Aragon arms attended barons beauty became Blanche brother castle cause Charles VII Chastelâr command Concini conduct countess court courtiers crown d'Estrées daughter Dauphin death Despenser Diana of Poitiers Don Enrique Don Fadrique Don Juan Don Pedro Don Tello Doña Leonor Doña Maria Duchess Duke Earl Edward Eleonora Elizabeth enemies England English Essex eyes father favour favourite France French Gabrielle Gabrielle d'Estrées Gascon Gaveston grace Guienne hand Hatton Henry Henry IV Hinestrosa husband influence Isabella Jacques Cœur king king's kingdom knights Lady letter Lord Louis Louis XIII Luynes majesty Maria de Padilla Marie marriage master Medici minister monarch mother nobility nobles occasion Paris passion person pleasure possessed present prince princess prisoner queen queen-mother received reign rendered replied Richelieu Seville Somerset soon sovereign sword took Toro Valladolid Villemont whilst wife young youth
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Seite 368 - Now did appear, in rich dress, Hope, Faith and Charity: Hope did assay to speak, but wine rendered her endeavours so feeble that she withdrew, and hoped the King would excuse her brevity; Faith was then all alone, for I am certain she was not...
Seite 368 - Majesty then got up and would dance with the Queen of Sheba; but he fell down and humbled himself before her, and was carried to an inner chamber and laid on a bed of state ; which was not a little defiled with the presents of the Queen which had been bestowed on his garments; such as wine, cream, jelly, beverage, cakes, spices, and other good matters. The entertainment and show went forward, and most of the presenters went backward, or fell down; wine did so occupy their upper chambers.
Seite 368 - One day a great feast was held ; and after dinner the representation of Solomon his Temple, and the coming of the Queen of Sheba, was made, or (as I may better say) was meant to have been made, before their Majesties, by device of the Earl of Salisbury and others.
Seite 368 - Victory did not triumph long, for, after much lamentable utterance, she was led away like a silly captive, and laid to sleep in the outer steps of the ante-chamber. Now did Peace make entry and strive to get foremost to the King; but I grieve to tell how great wrath she did discover unto those of her attendants, and much contrary to her semblance, most rudely made war with her...
Seite 379 - First her eye kindles other ladies' eyes, Then from their beams their jewels' lustres rise ; And from their jewels torches do take fire, And all is warmth, and light, and good desire.
Seite 356 - He was surely a man of the greatest expense in his own person " of any in the age he lived ; and introduced more of that expense " in the excess of clothes and diet than any other man ; and was in* " deed the original of all those inventions, from which others did but
Seite 123 - She seized it by the clotted hair, and o'er the window flung : The mastiff smelt it in his lair, forth at her cry he sprung ; The mastiff that had crouched so low, to lick the master's hand, He tossed the morsel to and fro, and licked it on the sand. And ever as the mastiff tore, his bloody teeth were shown, With growl and snort he made his sport, and picked it to the bone! The baying of the beast was loud ; and swiftly on the street There gathered round a gaping crowd to see the mastiff eat. Then...
Seite 390 - Peers shook their heads and blushed to hear such slender excuses come from him, of •whom much better was expected. The only thing worth note in him was his constancy and undaunted carriage in all the time of his arraignment, which as it began so did it continue to the end, without any change or alteration.
Seite 368 - I rather think it was in his face. Much was the hurry and confusion; cloths and napkins were at hand to make all clean. His Majesty then got up and would dance with the Queen of Sheba, but he fell down and humbled himself before her and was carried to an inner chamber and laid on a bed of state, which was not a little defiled with the presents of the Queen which had been bestowed on his garments, such as wine, cream, jelly, beverage, cakes, spices, and other good matters.
Seite 39 - Scotland, the violation of his coronation oath, and oppression of the Church and Baronage ; and on the approval of this it was resolved that the reign of Edward of Caernarvon had ceased and that the crown had passed to his son, Edward of Windsor. A deputation of the Parliament proceeded to Kenilworth to procure the assent of the discrowned King to his own deposition, and Edward, " clad in a plain black gown," submitted quietly to his fate.