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affairs alarmed Alva Alva's amongst Antwerp army became began bishops Bothwell Cardinal carried Catholic party Catholicism Charles Charles IX chief Church clergy Coligny Council court Darnley death Don John Duke of Anjou Duke of Guise Earl ecclesiastical Edward Elizabeth Emperor England Europe favour favourite feeling felt France French gave Germany Granvella hands head Henry of Navarre Henry VIII hoped Huguenots influence Jesuits king's lands League Leicester Lord marriage married Mary of Scotland Mary's massacre Meanwhile mind ministers murder Nether Netherlands nobles once papal Paris Parliament Parma peace persecution Philip Philip II plans plot political Pope popular position Prince of Orange Protes Protestant Protestantism provinces queen rebellion Reformation refused regent reign religion religious restoration royal scheme Scots Scottish secure sent ships siege Somerset soon Spain Spaniards Spanish monarchy Spanish troops spirit struggle success tion took town Zeeland
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Page 211 - Shall I make spirits fetch me what I please, Resolve me of all ambiguities, Perform what desperate enterprise I will ? Ill have them fly to India for gold, Ransack the ocean for orient pearl. And search all corners of the new-found world For pleasant fruits and princely delicates...
Page 177 - MY loving people, we have been persuaded by some that are careful of our safety, to take heed how we commit ourselves to armed multitudes, for fear of treachery. But I assure you, I do not desire to live to distrust my faithful and loving people. Let tyrants fear. I have always so behaved myself that, under God, I have placed my chiefest strength and safeguard in the loyal hearts and goodwill of my subjects...
Page 216 - Our revels now are ended... These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits, and Are melted into air, into thin air, And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capped towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind: we are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep..
Page 136 - Full little knowest thou, that hast not tried, What hell it is in suing long to bide ; To lose good days that might be better spent ; To waste long nights in pensive discontent; To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow ; To feed on hope ; to pine with fear and sorrow ; To have thy Prince's grace, yet want her peers...
Page 204 - Nature never set forth the earth in so rich tapestry as divers poets have done, neither with so pleasant rivers, fruitful trees, sweet-smelling flowers, nor whatsoever else may make the too much loved earth more lovely. Her world is brazen, the poets only deliver a golden.
Page 177 - I know I have the body but of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a King of England too...
Page 204 - I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas that I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet...
Page 211 - I'll levy soldiers with the coin they bring, And chase the Prince of Parma from our land,** And reign sole king of all the provinces; Yea, stranger engines for the brunt of war Than was the fiery keel" at Antwerp's bridge, I'll make my servile spirits to invent.