Lives of the Queens of England, from the Norman Conquest: With Anecdotes of Their Courts, Now First Published from Official Records and Other Authentic Documents, Private as Well as Public, Volume 3Lea and Blanchard, 1848 - Queens |
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Page 32 - master, for he was bathed in tears during the time he thus conducted the young widow of Richard to her native shores. " My queen to France from whence set forth in pomp She came adorned hither like sweet May, Sent back like Hallowmas, or shortest
Page 172 - rival, replied in these words :—" My father was king; his father was also king ; I have worn the crown forty years, from my cradle ; you have all sworn fealty to me as your sovereign, and your fathers have done the like to my father and grandfather.
Page 36 - TRANSLATION. To make my lady's obsequies My love a minster wrought, And in the chantry service there Was sung by doleful thought. The tapers were of burning sighs, That light and odour gave, And grief illumined by tears Irradiated her grave ; And round about, in quaintest guise, Was carved'—-
Page 159 - and my lord of St. John of Jerusalem, were with him the morrow after Twelfth day, and he did speak to them as well as ever he did, and when they came out they wept for joy. And he saith he is in charity with all the world, and so he would all the lords were. And now
Page 20 - understand by it,' said the unfortunate king, ' that this my favourite greyhound Math fondles and pays his court to you this day, as king of England, which you will be, and 1 shall be deposed, for that the natural instinct of the creature perceives. Keep him, therefore, by your side ; for
Page 42 - the apartments. The duke led the constable by the hand from chamber to chamber, and even into the cellars, where wine was offered. When they reached the entrance of the keep, the duke paused, and invited Clisson to enter and examine the construction of the building, while he remained in conversation with lord de Laval.
Page 103 - gave to England the first reverse they had met in France, at Baugy, where— Swinton laid the lance in rest That tamed of yore the sparkling crest Of Clarence's Plantagenet. Sir John
Page 11 - took it, and looked into it with much pleasure. He ought to have been pleased, for it was handsomely written and illuminated, and bound in crimson velvet, with ten silver gilt studs, and roses of the same in the middle, with two large clasps of silver gilt, richly worked with roses in the centre. The king asked me
Page 169 - afternoon, and abode there till it was Thursday three o'clock ; and she sent after my cousin .Elizabeth Clere, by Sharinham, to come to her, and she durst not disobey her commandment, and came to her ; and when she came in the queen's presence, the queen made right much of her, and desired her to have
Page 24 - hands from his head, and, placing it before him, said,—• * " Henry, fair cousin, I present and give to you this crown, with which I was crowned king of England, and with it all the rights dependent on it." Henry of Lancaster received the royal diadem, and delivered it over to the archbishop. Thus was the resignation