The Life of Mary, Queen of Scots: Drawn from the State Papers, with Subsidiary Memoirs, Volume 1J. Murray, 1822 - Scotland |
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Page ix - I'll give thee this plague for thy dowry: be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shall not escape calumny. Get thee to a nunnery, go; farewell. Or, if thou wilt needs marry, marry a fool; for wise men know well enough what monsters you make of them. To a nunnery, go; and quickly, too.
Page 88 - His severity keepeth us in marvellous order. I commend better the success of his doings and preachings than the manner thereof, though I acknowledge his doctrine to be sound. His prayer is daily for her, ' that God will turn her obstinate heart against God and his truth; or, if the holy will be otherwise, to strengthen the hearts and hands of his chosen and elect, stoutly to withstand the rage of all tyrants,
Page 392 - ... her privy letters, written and subscribed with her own hand, and sent by her to James Earl of Bothwell...
Page 270 - Greenwich, where her majesty was in great mirth, dancing after supper. But so soon as the secretary Cecil whispered in her ear the news of the prince's birth, all her mirth was laid aside for that night. All present marvelling whence proceeded such a change ; for the queen did sit down, putting her hand under her 404. «heek, bursting out to some of her ladies, that the queen of Scots was mother of a fair son, while she •was but a barren stock.
Page 133 - I that stomache to be in her that I find. She repented nothing but, when the Lords and others, at Inverness, came in the morning from the...
Page 193 - Queen of Scots, how willing soever I be to live in amity, and to maintain peace, yet must she not look for that at my hands, that otherwise I would, or she desireth.^ To forsake friendship offered, and present commodity [advantage] for uncertainty, no friend will advise me ; nor if I did, would your mistress
Page 426 - Seaton, who is praised by this queen to be the finest busker, that is to say, the finest dresser of a woman's head of hair that is to be seen in any country...
Page 140 - Good friend, you see here the envy that is borne unto my husband. Would he have forsaken God and his religion, as those that are now about the Queen's grace, and have the whole guiding of her, have done, my husband had never been put at as now he is.
Page 194 - How much better were it,' saith she, ' that we two, being Queens, so near of kin, neighbours, and being in one isle, should be friends, and live together like sisters, than, by strange means, divide ourselves to the hurt of us both; and to say that we may for all that live friends, we may say and prove what we will, but it will pass both our powers.
Page 255 - Ruthven, bodin in like maner with his complices, took entry perforce in our cabinet, and there seeing our secretary, David Riccio, among others our servants, declared he had to speak with him. In this instant we required the King our husband, if he knew anything of that interprise ? who denyed the same.