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Page 265 - When her maids, bathed in tears, began to disrobe their mistress, the executioners, fearing the loss of their usual perquisites, hastily interfered. The queen remonstrated, but instantly submitted to their rudeness, observing to the earls with a smile that she was not accustomed to employ such grooms, or to undress in the presence of so numerous a company. Her servants, at the sight of their...
Page 413 - O ! now it mindeth me that you was one who saw this man elsewhere*, and hereat she dropped a tear and smote her bosom ; she held in her hand a golden cup, which she often put to her lips ; but in truth her heart seemeth too full to need more filling.
Page 375 - She chafed much; walked fastly to and fro ; looked with discomposure in her visage ; and I remember, she catched my girdle when I kneeled to her, and swore. ' By God's son I am no queen, that man is above me; — who gave him command to come here so soon ? I did send him on other business.
Page 244 - Carle, compassed and imagined divers matters tending to the hurt, death and destruction, of the queen, contrary to the form of the statute specified in the commission. This, by the act, was equivalent to a sentence of death against all the three, to be carried into execution at the pleasure of the queen. A provision was, however, added...
Page 375 - It was long before more gracious discourse did fall to my hearing, but I was then put out of my trouble, and bid ' go home ' I did not stay to be bidden twice. If all the Irish rebels had been at my heels, I should not have made better speed, for I did now flee from one whom I both loved and feared.
Page 412 - Essex, has described in a private letter, the state in which he found the queen. She was altered in her features, and reduced to a skeleton. Her food was nothing but manchet bread and succory pottage. Her taste for dress was gone. She had not changed her clothes for many days. Nothing could please her: she was the torment of the ladies who waited on her person. She stamped with her feet, and swore violently at the objects of her anger. For her protection she had ordered a sword to be placed by her...
Page 258 - It was contrary to the law of God, and the law of the land ; and would endanger the safety both of the souls and bodies of the commissioners. A long and desultory conversation followed. Mary asked if her son had forgotten his mother in her distress ; whether none of the foreign powers had interceded in her favour; and lastly, when she was to suffer. To this question the earl of Shrewsbury answered, but with considerable agitation, " To-morrow morning at eight o'clock.
Page 424 - The least inattention, the slightest provocation, would throw her into a passion. At all times her discourse was sprinkled with oaths ; in the sallies of her anger it abounded with imprecations and abuse. Nor did she content herself with words ; not only the ladies about her person, but her courtiers and the highest officers in the state, felt the weight of her hands. She collared Hatton, she gave a blow on the ear to the earl marshal, and she spat on Sir Matthew Arundel, with the foppery of whose...
Page 442 - now ready to supply it. What would you more? I willingly " pay to her majesty what is hers ; yet I must pay to God what is "his. Then, as for excommunicating her majesty, it was exacted "of me, admitting that excommunication were of effect, and that " the pope had sufficient authority so to do, whether then I thought " myself discharged of my allegiance or no ? I said this was a " dangerous question, and they that demanded this demanded my
Page 146 - ... agreeable to the word of God ; but also that the book of common prayer contained nothing contrary to the word of God...