 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
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1897 - 260 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.' Charles Astor Bristed... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - English poetry - 1897 - 248 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.' Charles Astor Bristed says (Amer.Rev. VIII (1848). 37) : ' Where was the need of allusion or reference... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - British literature - 1898 - 916 pages
...bedded; and after she was laid, there came in Maximilian's ambassador, with letters of procuration, and but again She veil'd her brows, and prone she sank,...caught feign death, Spoke not, nor stirr'd. By this the ceremony might be thought to amount to a consummation and actual knowledge.' In the present instance,... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - British literature - 1898 - 924 pages
...Maximilian's ambassador, with letters of procuration, and in the presence of sundry noble personages, men aud 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,... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1898 - 928 pages
...and after she was laid, there came in Maximilian's ambassador, •with letters of procuration, aiid in the presence of sundry noble personages, men and women, put his leg, ttript naked to the knee, between the espousal sheets: to the end, that the ceremony might be thought... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1900 - 274 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...to amount to a consummation and actual knowledge." — Spedding's Edition, vol. XI., pp. 153, 154. Spedding, in a note to the above, adds the information... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1900 - 270 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...be thought to amount to a consummation and actual knowledge."—Spedding's Edition, vol. XL, pp. 153, 154. Spedding, in a note to the above, adds the... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - Great Britain - 1901 - 376 pages
...there came in Maximilian's ambassador, with letters of procuration, and, in the presence of certain noble personages, men and women, put his leg, stript...knee, between the espousal sheets ; to the end, that the ceremony might be thought to amount to a consummation." Duke de Chevreuse, and the Earls of Carlisle... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - Great Britain - 1901 - 366 pages
...there came in Maximilian's ambassador, with letters of procuration, and, in the presence of certain noble personages, men and women, put his leg, stript...knee, between the espousal sheets ; to the end, that the ceremony might be thought to amount to a consummation." Duke de Chevreuse, and the Earls of Carlisle... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - Great Britain - 1902 - 492 pages
...showed what it must have been. Her mother was in bad 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 the ceremony might amount... | |
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