Cardinal Allen's Defence of Sir William Stanley's Surrender of Deventer, January 29, 1586-7

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Chetham Society, 1851 - Deventer, Surrender of, 1587 - 41 pages
 

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Page xcix - caught, at rare intervals, views of the Black Coomb in Cumberland, or the Ormes Head, and the Snowdon range, and on some fortunate midsummer evening are seen, in high relief, before the setting sun, the mountains of the Isle of Man. Li ruscelletti, che de' verdi colli Del Casentin discendon giuso in Arno, Facendo i lor canali e freddi e molli, Sempre
Page 16 - Have not I enticed the subjects of my neighbor Princes to destroy their natural Kings ? like moths that eat the clothes in which they were bred, like vipers that gnaw the bowels of which they were born, and like worms that consume the wood of which they were engendered. " To what kingdom have not I pretended claim
Page 1 - that action was : and also that al others, especiallie those of the English Nation, that detayne anie townes, or other places, in the lowe countries, from the King Catholike, are bound, upon paine of damnation, to do the like. Before which is also prefixed
Page lxxxv - 334, n. 34, also 323. It is there said, that it was determined to make "a grant of the purple for Dr. Allen. Allen, ignorant of the project, was at the Spa; under some pretext he was drawn to Rome, and though he declined the dignity, as he had before declined it, under Gregory
Page lvii - And stuffed it well with plums, And in it put great lumps of fat, As big as my two thumbs.
Page lxxxix - his crafty persuasion took upon him to be the author of that book,) did labour with all the rhetoric he had, to have persuaded us, upon the supposed arrival! of the Spaniard, to have joyned with him to our own destructions ;" and again : " The good Cardinal (by Parsons's means,) is made to say,
Page lxxviii - sought, or practised, to irritate any Prince or Potentate to hostilitie against the same. Further, invocating upon his soul, that he never knew, saw, nor heard, during his abode in the Court there, of any such writings as are
Page xxxii - feeling was the Dutch regarding the English as mere mercenaries, objects of traffic, for which they paid, as for herrings or butter. Silvio. What kind of country is this Holland That's so much talk'd of, and so much fought for
Page xcix - stanno innanzi, e non indarno ; Che l'imagine lor via più m'asciuga, Che il male, ond' io nel volto mi discarno. Inferno, canto
Page xcix - discendon giuso in Arno, Facendo i lor canali e freddi e molli, Sempre me stanno innanzi, e non indarno ; Che

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