The Overbury Mystery: A Chronicle of Facts and Drama of the LawT.F. Unwin, Limited, 1925 - 327 էջ Concerning the events leading up to the death of Sir Thomas Overbury, and the arraignment of Lady Frances Howard, the Earl of Essex, and their agents for his murder. |
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... doctor , the one real professional friend of man , who , unlike the priest , hears true human confession , is as secret as the grave in which he stores his harvest . Here is an instance to our hand in Theodorus Turquet Sieur de Mayerne ...
... doctor , the one real professional friend of man , who , unlike the priest , hears true human confession , is as secret as the grave in which he stores his harvest . Here is an instance to our hand in Theodorus Turquet Sieur de Mayerne ...
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... doctor and credited him with having a hand in all the plots and poisonings that rumour whispered to ready ears . But with a timid soul like James , fearful of illness , and given to repentance after bouts of gluttony , it was a post of ...
... doctor and credited him with having a hand in all the plots and poisonings that rumour whispered to ready ears . But with a timid soul like James , fearful of illness , and given to repentance after bouts of gluttony , it was a post of ...
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... doctors to save the young man's life , the world for many years whispered that he had a hand in putting him away ... doctor bustling across the stage , whispering a word here , nodding to a friend at the wings , disappearing into the ...
... doctors to save the young man's life , the world for many years whispered that he had a hand in putting him away ... doctor bustling across the stage , whispering a word here , nodding to a friend at the wings , disappearing into the ...
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... doctor . Mayerne , then , was Physician in Ordinary to Henri Quatre , but when Ravaillac plunged his dagger into the heart of the King his doctor's career , too , was murdered , unless , indeed , he would take a new lease of it from ...
... doctor . Mayerne , then , was Physician in Ordinary to Henri Quatre , but when Ravaillac plunged his dagger into the heart of the King his doctor's career , too , was murdered , unless , indeed , he would take a new lease of it from ...
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... doctor to - day arrive from abroad with the condemnation of his fellow - countrymen in the profession as a ... doctors of London and the Universities in their common rooms spoke of this outlandish fellow from Paris as a charlatan . They ...
... doctor to - day arrive from abroad with the condemnation of his fellow - countrymen in the profession as a ... doctors of London and the Universities in their common rooms spoke of this outlandish fellow from Paris as a charlatan . They ...
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Abbot affair Archbishop Archbishop Abbot asked Attorney Bacon beautiful Cecil Chancellor Chartley Coke confession Countess of Essex Countess of Somerset Countess of Suffolk Court death doctor Earl of Essex Earl of Northampton Earl of Somerset evidence eyes father favour favourite fear Frances Howard Gervase Helwys girl grave guilty hand heard heart Henry Howard honour husband James jury King King's knew lady laughed letters Lidcote Lieutenant Lord Chief Justice Lord High Steward lover Majesty marriage masque master Mayerne mind Monson murder never Northampton House nullity Commission Overbury's peers physician play poor Prince Henry prisoner Queen Robert Carr Rochester royal seemed sent Serjeant servant Simon Forman Sir Gervase Sir Robert Sir Thomas Monson Sir Thomas Overbury stood story strange Suffolk tell things thought to-day told Tower trial truth Turner Villiers Weston whispered Whitehall wife Winwood woman words wretch writing young youth
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Էջ 235 - Curse not the king, no not in thy thought; and curse not the rich in thy bedchamber: for a bird of the air shall carry the voice, and that which hath wings shall tell the matter.
Էջ 161 - ... or truth, of human life — such a truth as might be formulated critically in an abstract and general proposition — which the dramatist contrives to convey concretely to his auditors through the particular medium of his story. Thus, the theme of Ghosts...
Էջ 290 - ... that you find the Commissioners have, you know not how, some secret assurance that in the end she will confess of him : but this must only be as from yourself...
Էջ 298 - Then when they had this poor gentleman in the Tower close prisoner, where he could not escape nor stir, where he could not feed but by their hands, where he could not speak nor write but through their trunks ; then was the time to execute the last act of this tragedy. Then must Franklin be purveyor of the poisons, and procure five, six,, seven several potions, to be sure to hit his complexion.
Էջ 240 - Since I saw you, I saw Mrs. Turner die. If detestation of painted pride, lust, malice, powdered hair, yellow bands, and the rest of the wardrobe of court vanities, — if deep sighs, tears, confessions, ejaculations of the soul, admonitions of all sorts of people to make God and an unspotted conscience always our friends, — if the protestation of faith and hope to be washed by the same Saviour and...
Էջ 208 - God's sake, let me," said the King, "shall I? shall I?" Then lolled about his neck. Then: "For God's sake, give thy lady this kiss for me.
Էջ 283 - ... you are to be drawn on hurdles to the place of execution, where you are to be hanged by the neck, but not until you are dead...
Էջ 290 - You shall therefore give him assurance in my name, that if he will yet before his trial confess clearly unto the Commissioners his guiltiness of this fact, I will not only perform what I promised by my last Messenger, both towards him and his wife, but I will enlarge it, according to the phrase of the civil law, quod gratiac sunt ampliandcC.
Էջ 310 - I assure myself you will not take circumstances for evidence, for if you should the conditions of a man's life were nothing. In the meantime you may see the excellence of the King's justice, which makes no distinction, putting me into your hands for a just and equal censure. For my part, I protest before God I was neither guilty of, nor privy to, any wrong that Overbury suffered in this kind.
Էջ 119 - Overbury for so slighting her, answered : ' My own legs are straight and strong enough to bear me up, but, in faith, I will be even with you for this...