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Страница 63 - Majesty's mercy, in the manner prescribed by herself, during the height of his favour; the Queen having given him a ring, which being sent to her as a token of his distress, might entitle him to her protection. But the earl, jealous of those about him, and not caring to trust any of them with it, as he was looking out of his window one morning, saw a boy, with whose appearance he was pleased ; and engaging him by money and promises, directed him to carry the ring, which he took from his finger and...
Страница 90 - ... she knew there was in him some noble blood, with some other expressions of pity towards his house; and then again demanding his name she said, 'fail you not to come to the Court, and I will bethink myself how to do you good.
Страница 57 - What, will the queen suffer her brother to be offered up as a sacrifice to the envy of my flattering adversaries?
Страница 90 - Thus enquiry, with the eye of her majesty fixed upon him, as she was wont to do, and to daunt men, she knew not, stirred the blood of the young gentleman, insomuch as his colour went and came; which the...
Страница 69 - I know not, but he had much the better in the manner of telling his tale, insomuch as the Queen and the lords took no slight mark of the man and his parts; for from thence he came to be known, and to have access to the lords; and then we are not to doubt how such a man would comply to progression...
Страница 63 - Nottingham, who shewed it to her husband the Admiral, an enemy of Lord Essex, in order to take his advice. The Admiral forbid her to carry it, or return any answer to the message ; but insisted upon her keeping the ring. " The Countess of Nottingham having made this discovery, begged the Queen's forgiveness ; but her Majesty answered, " God may forgive you, but I never can ;" and left the room with great emotion.
Страница 60 - Sir John Perrot was wont to say, by the galliard, for he came thither as a private gentleman of the Inns of Court, in a masque: and, for his activity and person, which was tall and proportionable, taken into her favour.
Страница 72 - I be not deceived, he had the longest lease, the smoothest time, without rubs, of any of any of her favourites ; he came to the court in his youth and prime, as that is the time, or never; he was a brave gentleman, and hopefully...
Страница 32 - Britanny, where under Sir John Norris he had then a company, without the queen's leave and privity ; she sent a messenger unto him, with a strict charge to the general, to see him sent home. When he came into the queen's presence, she fell into a kind...

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