History of the reign of king Henry vii, with notes by J.R. Lumby |
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... hath a living pat- 5 tern , incomparable , of the King your father : But it is not amiss for you also to see one of these ancient pieces . God preserve your Highness . Your Highness's most humble and devoted servant , FRANCIS ST . ALBAN ...
... hath a living pat- 5 tern , incomparable , of the King your father : But it is not amiss for you also to see one of these ancient pieces . God preserve your Highness . Your Highness's most humble and devoted servant , FRANCIS ST . ALBAN ...
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... hath fallen out often , but for the manner and circumstance of it , especially in the beginnings . Therefore we shall make our judgment upon the things themselves , as they give light one to another , and , as we can , dig truth out of ...
... hath fallen out often , but for the manner and circumstance of it , especially in the beginnings . Therefore we shall make our judgment upon the things themselves , as they give light one to another , and , as we can , dig truth out of ...
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... hath been seen in ancient and late times ; nor that it should 15 come into the mind of such an abject fellow , to enterprise so great a matter ; for high conceits do sometimes come streaming into the imaginations of base persons ...
... hath been seen in ancient and late times ; nor that it should 15 come into the mind of such an abject fellow , to enterprise so great a matter ; for high conceits do sometimes come streaming into the imaginations of base persons ...
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... hath commanded me to declare unto you the causes " that have moved him at this time to summon this his " parliament ; which I shall do in few words , craving pardon " of his grace , and you all , if I perform it not as I would . 5 " His ...
... hath commanded me to declare unto you the causes " that have moved him at this time to summon this his " parliament ; which I shall do in few words , craving pardon " of his grace , and you all , if I perform it not as I would . 5 " His ...
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... hath offered himself , as a mediator , to treat of peace " between them . The French King yielded to treat , but " will not stay the prosecution of the war . The Britons , " that desire peace most , hearken to it least ; not upon con ...
... hath offered himself , as a mediator , to treat of peace " between them . The French King yielded to treat , but " will not stay the prosecution of the war . The Britons , " that desire peace most , hearken to it least ; not upon con ...
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Page 272 - He being thus lorded, Not only with what my revenue yielded. But what my power might else exact, — like one Who having unto truth, by telling of it, Made such a sinner of his memory, To credit his own lie...
Page 221 - He was born at Pembroke castle, and lieth buried at Westminster, in one of the stateliest and daintiest monuments of Europe, both for the chapel and for the sepulchre. So that he dwelleth more richly dead, in the monument of his tomb, than he did alive in Richmond, or any of his palaces.
Page 155 - ... creation, as in St. George's Fields, where his own person had been encamped. And for matter of liberality, he did, by open edict, give the goods of all the prisoners unto those that had taken them; either to take them in kind, or compound for them, as they could. After matter of honour and liberality, followed matter of severity and execution. The lord Audley was led from Newgate to Tower-Hill, in a paper coat painted with his own arms; the arms reversed, the coat torn, and he at Tower-Hill beheaded.