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Updated: June 2, 2025
Among the cares and pleasures of a courtier's life, Raleigh preserved his zeal for American discovery.
As I meet, year after year, one of these to whom the seed sown in London ball-rooms and German watering-places had produced nothing yet but those tiresome garlands of the vestal I look curiously to see how she wears, thinking of the courtier's answer to Louis XIV. when the latter asked if he was looking older: "Sire, I see some more victories written on your forehead."
The court frequents bull and bear baitings; Elizabeth beats her maids, spits upon a courtier's fringed coat, boxes Essex's ears; great ladies beat their children and their servants. "The sixteenth century," he says, "is like a den of lions. Amid passions so strong as these there is not one lacking. Nature appears here in all its violence, but also in all its fullness.
'Why-som-ever then? Hath she stolen a tart? 'Nay, but I would have her in wedlock. 'Thou you your magistership? the boy laughed incredulously. The printer caught in his tone his courtier's contempt for the artificer's home, and his courtier's reverence for the magister's learning. 'Keep thy sister from beneath this fox's tooth, he said. 'The likes of him mate not with the like of us.
His Courtier's Triflings, suggested by John of Salisbury's Polycraticus, is the only book which actually bears his name, and with its gossip, its odd accumulations of learning, its fragments of ancient history, its outbursts of moral earnestness, its philosophy, brings back to us the very temper of the court and the stir and quickening of men's minds a stir which found expression in other works of bitter satire, in the lampoon of Ralph Niger, and in the violent attacks on the monks by Nigellus.
Thou art as quick as lightning." The prince placed his hand on the courtier's shoulder. "Be at rest," said he, looking him in the eyes. "If ye will only be loyal to me, ye, the nobles, and the army, ye will see wonderful things, and, as regards you, evil times will be ended." "Thou knowest that we are ready to die at thy command," said Tutmosis, placing his hand on his breast.
I did not doubt for a moment that she had made a special study of the whole subject. M. Alsuwieff told me, a few days after, that she had very possibly read a little pamphlet on the subject, the statements of which exactly coincided with her own. He took care to add, however, that it was very possible her highness was profoundly learned on the matter, but this was merely a courtier's phrase.
Yet he saw nothing to confirm his suspicions beyond a certain preoccupied moodiness on the courtier's part. That night, as they supped, Gonzaga pleaded toothache, and with Valentina's leave he quitted the table at the very outset of the meal.
She hastened to inform Jeflur, and to engage him to revenge her Quarrel. The Mollak was thunderstruck at this News, for such an Alteration in the King had shipwreck'd all his Hopes. His two thousand Tomans were lost, and he seem'd on the Brink of his Ruin. In this Extremity he had Recourse to Kelirieu. But it was no longer this Courtier's Interest to serve him.
The very sarcasm of the eye was gone; and I had learned the world's easy lesson, the dissimulation of composure. I have noted one thing in others, and it was particularly noticeable in me; namely, that few who mix very largely with men, and with the courtier's or the citizen's design, ever retain the key and tone of their original voice.
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