 For she was not only publicly contracted, but stated, as a bride, and solemnly bedded ; and after she was laid, there came in Maximilian's ambassador with letters of procuration, and in the presence of sundry noble personages, men and women, put his leg,...  The works of Francis Bacon - Page 65by Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819Full view - About this book
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1876 - 364 pages
...bride, and solemnly bedded. This done, Maximilian, whose property was to leave things then when 20 they were almost come to perfection, and to end them by imagination ; like ill archers, that draw not their arrows up to the head; thinking now all assured, neglected... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1877 - 782 pages
...bedded ; and after she was laid, there came in Maximilian's ambassador with letters of procuration, and in the presence of sundry noble personages, men and women, put his leg stripped naked to the knee, between the espousal sheets ; to the end, that that ceremony might be thought... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Philosophy - 1878 - 790 pages
...bedded, and after she was laid, there came in Maximilian's{ ambassador with letters of procuration, and in the presence of/ sundry noble personages, men and...consummation and actual knowledge. This done, Maximilian (whos property was to leave things then when they were almost comer to perfection, and to end them... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1882 - 570 pages
...put his leg, stripped naked to the knee, between the 'vets; to the end, that that ceremony might b« amount to a consummation and actual knowledge. This...come to perfection, and to end them by imagination ; like ill archers, that draw not their arrows up to the head ; and who might as easily have bedded... | |
 | Samuel Edward Dawson - 1884 - 150 pages
...bedded ; and after she was laid, there came in Maximilian's ambassador with letters of procuration, and in the presence of sundry noble personages, men and...knee, between the espousal sheets ; to the end, that the ceremony might be thought to amount to a consummation and actual knowledge." — JBac&n, History... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - English poetry - 1884 - 200 pages
...bedded ; and after she was laid, there came in Maximilian's ambassador, with letters of procuration, and in the presence of sundry noble personages, men and...knee, between the espousal sheets ; to the end, that the ceremony micht be thought to amount to a consummation and actual knowledge." In the present instance,... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1884 - 564 pages
...bedded; and after she was laid, there came in Maximilian's ambassador with letters of procuration, and in the presence of sundry noble personages, men and women, put his leg, stripped naked to the knee, between the espousal sheets ; to the end, that that ceremony might be thought... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Philosophy, English - 1890 - 826 pages
...bedded, and after she was laid, there came in Maximilian's ambassador with letters of procuration, and in the presence of sundry noble personages, men and...property was to leave things then when they were almost comen to perfection, and to end them by imagination ; like ill archers, that draw not their arrows... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1890 - 788 pages
...bedded, and after she was laid, there came in Maximilian's ambassador with letters of procuration, and in the presence of sundry noble personages, men and...property was to leave things then when they were almost comen to perfection, and to end them by imagination ; like ill archers, that draw not their arrows... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1890 - 198 pages
...and women, put his leg, stript naked to the knee, between the espousal sheets ; to the end, that the ceremony might be thought to amount to a consummation and actual knowledge." In the present instance, as Ida afterwards urged (v. 388), the marriage was " invalid," since her "... | |
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