The Court of Queen ElizabethG. Smeeton, 1814 - 127 էջ |
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Admirall afterwards amongst ancient aydes better blood brave brother Chancellor command counsell Countess of Nottingham courtier crowne cunning daughter death died Duke Earl of Essex Earl of Leicester Earl of Salisbury England fame father fortune Foulke Greville Francis Vere Generall gentleman grace greatnesse hath Hatton himselfe honour Ireland Irish kingdome Lady lived Lord Chamberlain Lord Hunsdon Lord Mountjoy Lord Norris Lord of Essex Lord of Leicester Lord Treasurer Lord Willoughby loved magnanimitie Majesty married Mary nature never nobility noble observation offence payd peece person prince publique Queen Elizabeth Queen of Scots Queenes favour raigne sayd Secretary sent servants shew Sir Francis Knowles Sir Francis Vere Sir John Packington Sir John Perrot Sir Nicholas Bacon Sir Philip Sidney Sir Robert Sir Walter Sir Walter Raleigh sister sonne souldier soveraigne Spaniards stood Sussex taken thereof therewith tion Togati tooke truth unto vertues Walsingham wherein William wont
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Էջ 76 - ... drew the curtain between himself and the light of her grace, and then death overwhelmed the remnant, and utterly deprived him of recovery, and they say of him, that had he brought less to her court than he did, he might have carried away more than he brought, for he had a time on it, but an ill husband of opportunity.
Էջ 104 - ... she knew there was in him some noble blood, with some other expressions of pity towards his house; and then again demanding his name she said, 'fail you not to come to the Court, and I will bethink myself how to do you good.
Էջ 10 - I have and will, at my pleasure, bequeath my favour, and likewise resume the same; and if you think to rule here, I will take a course to see you forthcoming * ; I will have here but one mistress, and no master...
Էջ 52 - I have heard it spoken, that, had he not slighted the court, but applied himself to the queen, he might have enjoyed a plentiful portion of her grace; and it was his saying, and it did him no good, that he was none of the Reptilia, intimating that he could not creep on the ground, and that the court was not his element: for indeed, as he was a great soldier, so he was of a suitable magnanimity, and could not brook the obsequiousness and assiduity of the court...
Էջ 13 - ... inauspicious war, which did much disturb and mislead her judgment; and the more for that it was a precedent taken out of her own pattern. For as the Queen, by way of division, had, at her coming to the crown, supported the revolted States of Holland, so did the King of Spain turn the trick upon herself, towards her going out, by cherishing the Irish rebellion...
Էջ 73 - Nottingham, who shewed it to her husband the Admiral, an enemy of Lord Essex, in order to take his advice. The Admiral forbid her to carry it, or return any answer to the message ; but insisted upon her keeping the ring.
Էջ 3 - ... bond (confirmative religion) which made them one ; for the king never called her by any other appellation but his sweetest and dearest sister, and was scarce his own man, she being absent ; which was not so between him and the Lady Mary.
Էջ 69 - Sir John Perrot was wont to say, by the galliard, for he came thither as a private gentleman of the Inns of Court, in a masque: and, for his activity and person, which was tall and proportionable, taken into her favour.
Էջ 103 - ... till at length it was told the Queene, he was brother to the Lord William Mountjoy, thus enquirie with the eye of her Majesty fixed upon him, as she was wont to doe, and to daunt men she knew not, stirred the blood of the young gentleman...