Memoirs of Mary Stuart, Queen of Scotland, Volumen1

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R. Bentley, 1844 - 404 páginas
 

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Página iii - I'll give thee this plague for thy dowry : be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny.
Página 14 - Lag of a brother? Why bastard? Wherefore base? When my dimensions are as well compact, My mind as generous, and my shape as true, As honest madam's issue? Why brand they us With base? with baseness? bastardy? base, base? Who, in the lusty stealth of nature, take More composition and fierce quality Than doth, within a dull, stale, tired bed, Go to th' creating a whole tribe of fops Got 'tween asleep and wake?
Página 75 - ... then he began to purge himself of so proud a pretence as to marry so great a queen, declaring that he did not esteem himself worthy to wipe her shoes, and that the invention of that proposition of marriage proceeded from Mr. Cecil, his secret enemy: for if I, said he, should have appeared desirous of that marriage, I should have offended both the queens, and lost their favour.
Página 122 - I have heard that there is a device working for the Earl of Bothwell, the particulars whereof I might have heard, but because such dealings like me not, I desire to hear no further thereof.
Página 371 - October 1569, with toe other documents that had been produced before the commissioners at York and Westminster, with this remark, ' If further proof be required, we have sent you the depositions of N. Hubert, alias Paris, a...
Página 314 - And these men here do constantly affirm the said letters and other writings which they produce of her own hand, to be her own hand indeed...
Página 106 - Levingston obteined deliverance of their invasion. The provost and town of Edinburgh having understood this tumult in our palace, caused ring their common bell, came to us in great number, and desired to have seen our presence...
Página 75 - I answered very coldly, as I had been by my queen commanded : and then he began to purge himself of so proud a pretence as to marry so great a queen, declaring that he did not esteem himself worthy to wipe her shoes, and that the invention of that proposition of marriage proceeded from Mr. Cecil, his secret enemy: for if I...
Página 194 - ... our people would not well digest a foreign husband, and that of our own subjects there was none, either for the reputation of his house, or for the worthiness of himself, as well in wisdom, valiantness, as in all other good qualities, to be preferred or yet compared to him whom we have taken...
Página 358 - ... them out of the realm of Scotland, or take or slay them. 4. Item. As to the religion which was established by the queen's majesty our sovereign...

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