 | charles barker - 1853 - 126 էջ
...Mazarine, etc., a French boy singing love-songs in that glorious gallery, whilst about twenty of the great courtiers and other dissolute persons were at basset...round a large table, a bank of at least two thousand in gold before them. Six. days after, was all in the dust!" This, it may be supposed, is what the King... | |
 | Barton Bouchier - 1853 - 518 էջ
...witness of — the King sitting and toying with his concubines. . . . whilst about 20 of the grate courtiers, and other dissolute persons, were at basset round a large table, a bank of at least 2000 in gold before them. Six days after aU was in the dust!" — Evelyn's Diary, vol. iii., p. 137.... | |
 | Anthony Hamilton (Count), Charles II (King of England), Thomas Blount - 1853 - 568 էջ
...Mazarine, etc., a French boy singing love songs in that glorious gallery, whilst about twenty of the great courtiers and other dissolute persons were at basset round a large table, a bank of at least 2,000^. in gold before them, upon which two gentlemen who were with me made reflections in. astonishment.... | |
 | Samuel Pepys - 1855 - 510 էջ
...Mazarin, &n. A French boy singing love songs in that glorious gallery, whilst about twenty of the great courtiers and other dissolute persons were at basset round a large table, a bank of at least 20001. in gold before them ; upon which two gentlemen who were with rue made reflexions with astonishment.... | |
 | John Wade - 1856 - 862 էջ
...&c., — a French boy singing love songs in that glorious gallery, whilst about twenty of the great courtiers and other dissolute persons were at basset round a large table, a bank of at least 20OO£ in gold before them." Here follows Pepys' account of a court entertainment : — " The LICENTIOUSNESS... | |
 | George Buchanan - 1856 - 684 էջ
....Mazarine. A French boy singing love longs in that glorious gallery, while about seventy of the great courtiers, and other dissolute persons, were at basset round a large table ; a bank of at least L.2000 in gold before them, upon which the gentlemen who were with me made reflections with astonishment.'-... | |
 | Edward Farr - 1856 - 570 էջ
...Mazarine, &c., a French boy singing love-songs in that glorious gallery, while about twenty of the great courtiers and other dissolute persons were at basset round a large table, with a bank of at least 20001. in gold before them." On that night the word went forth that the days... | |
 | John Tyrrell Baylee (the younger.) - 1857 - 306 էջ
...Mazarene, a French boy, singing low songs in that glorious gallery, whilst about twenty of the great courtiers, and other dissolute persons, were at basset round a large table, a bank of at least 2000 in gold before them : upon which two gentlemen who were with me made reflections with astonishment.... | |
 | Henry Hall Dixon - 1856 - 318 էջ
...a French boy singing love-songs in that glorious gallery, while about twenty of the great courtiers were at Basset round a large table, a bank of at least £2,000 in gold before them. Six days after, all was in the dust ;" and great was the wailing at Whitehall... | |
 | Paul Hamilton Payne - 1858 - 584 էջ
...Mazarin, <fep., a French boy singing love songs in that glorious gallery, whilst about twenty of the great courtiers, and other dissolute persons, were at basset, round a large table, a bank of at least £2,000 in gold before them ; upon which two gentlemen who were with me made strange reflections. Six... | |
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I was witness of, the King sitting and toying with his concubines, Portsmouth, Cleveland, and Mazarine, &c., a French boy singing love-songs,* in that glorious gallery, whilst about twenty of the great courtiers and other dissolute persons were at Basset... 
