Laneham's Letter Describing the Magnificent Pagents Presented Before Queen Elizabeth, at Kenilworth Castle: In 1575; Repeatedly Referred to in the Romance of Kenilworth; with an Introductory Preface, Glossorial and Explanatory Notes. ...Hickman and Hazzard, 1822 - 113 pages |
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Page 89 - ... materials up and down the garden: After seeing these, we were led by the gardener into the summer-house, in the lower part of which, built semicircularly, are the twelve Roman Emperors, in white marble, and a table of touchstone ; the upper part of it is set round with cisterns of lead, into which...
Page v - Now nought was heard beneath the skies, The sounds of busy life were still, Save an unhappy lady's sighs, That issued from that lonely pile.
Page iv - Mary's church in Oxford, with great pomp and solemnity. It is remarkable, when Dr. Babington, the Earl's chaplain, did preach the funeral sermon, he tript once or twice in his speech, by recommending to their memories that virtuous lady so pitifully murdered, instead of saying pitifully slain.
Page iv - Earl, to make plain to the world the great love he bare to her while alive, and what a grief the loss of so virtuous a lady was to his tender heart, caused (though the thing, by these and other means, was beaten into the heads of the principal men of the University of Oxford) her body to be reburied in St.
Page 76 - ... emonge hem al was a quene, and al they had blacke hoodes, and al they wepte and shryked whan they sawe Kyng Arthur. Now put me in to the barge, sayd the kyng and so he dyd softelye.
Page vi - I'm told, is beauty's throne, . Where every lady's passing rare, That Eastern flowers, that shame the sun, Are not so glowing, not so fair. ' ' Then, Earl, why didst thou leave the beds Where roses and where lilies vie, To seek a primrose, whose pale shades Must sicken when those gauds are by ? ' ' 'Mong rural beauties I was one, Among the fields wild flowers are fair ; Some country swain might me have won, And thought my beauty passing rare.
Page 5 - It was a sport very pleasant of these beasts ; to see the bear with his pink eyes leering after his enemies' approach, the nimbleness and wait of the dog, to take his advantage, and the force and experience of the bear, again to avoid the...
Page 89 - Roman emperors in white marble, and a table of touchstone; the upper part of it is set round with cisterns of lead, into which the water is conveyed through pipes, so that fish may be...
Page iii - ... without hurting her hood that was upon her head), yet the inhabitants will tell you there that she was conveyed from her usual chamber where she lay to another where the bed's head of the chamber stood close to a privy postern door, where they in the night came and stifled her in her bed, bruised her head very much, broke her neck, and at length flung her downstairs, thereby believing the world would have thought it a mischance, and so have blinded their villany.
Page vii - ... aptly made to the purpose : whereby, as Her Highness was come within his ward, he burst out in a great pang of impatience to see such uncouth trudging to and fro, such riding in and out, with such din and noise of talk...