Calendar of State Papers, Domestic Series, of the Reigns of Edward VI., Mary, Elizabeth, 1547-[1625]: 1595-1597: Elizabeth. 1869Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts, 1869 - Great Britain |
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Page 131 - ... Stories or fables do describe no such. Never did Atlas such a burden bear, As she, in holding up the world opprest ; Supplying with her virtue everywhere Weakness of friends, errors of servants best. No nation breeds a warmer blood for war, And yet she calms them by her majesty : No age hath ever wits refined so far, And yet she calms them by her policy : To her thy son must make his sacrifice If he will have the morning of his eyes.
Page 131 - Seated between the Old World and the New, A land there is no other land may touch, Where reigns a Queen in peace and honour true ; Stories or fables do describe no such. Never did Atlas such a burden bear, As she, in holding up the world opprest ; Supplying with her virtue everywhere Weakness of friends, errors of servants best. No nation breeds a warmer blood for war...
Page 531 - ... any ancestor above him; but when one is disabled by parliament (without any attainder) to claim the dignity for his life, it is a personal disability for his life only, and his heir, after his death, may claim as heir to him or to any ancestor above him.
Page 347 - In the bishopric of Durham, 500 ploughs have decayed in a few years, and corn has to be fetched from Newcastle, whereby the plague is spread in the northern counties ; thus the money goes, and the people can neither pay their landlords nor store their VoL.
Page 344 - ... rising in Oxford being examined reveal that the matter arose concerning enclosures, for many in those parts have enclosed the common fields. One of them having complained to his fellow how hardly he maintained his wife and seven children with bread and water this hard year, the other made answer, ' Care not for work, for we shall have a merrier world shortly : there be lusty fellows abroad and I will get more, and I will work one day and play the other.
Page 474 - To this, I swear by the Living God, that Her Majesty made one of the best answers extempore in Latin that ever I heard, being much moved to be so challenged in public, especially so much against her expectation.
Page 131 - Love, a Prince indeed, but of greater territories than all the Indies : armed after the Indian manner with bow and arrows, and when he is in his ordinary habit an Indian naked, or attired with feathers, though now for comeliness clad. To procure his pardon for the stratagem...
Page 234 - Portugal, where the enemy might bring an army to attempt them ; (though I doubt not but after he had once tried what it were to besiege two or three thousand English, in a place well fortified, and where they had a port open, he would grow quickly weary of those attempts...
Page 344 - Spencer had two sound fellows in his house. Made the less account of these speeches as when he went to market, he commonly heard the poor people say that they were ready to famish for want of corn, and thought they should be forced by hunger to take it out of men's houses.
Page 187 - Directs that so much of the said sum as shall be received and shall belong to him, shall be laid out in the purchase of lands for the benefit of his wife and two sons, and their heirs equally. To his two sons, all his armour. All his debts, together with such legacies as are not specially, charged to be...