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I am Henry the Eighth's sixth queen; I shall also be executed, or, loaded with disgrace, be repudiated." Again she hid her face in her hands, and her whole frame shook; so she saw not the smile of malicious satisfaction with which Lady Jane again observed her. She suspected not with what secret delight her friend heard her lamentations and sighs. "Oh!
The ambition of making a Duke of York vice-chancellor of holy church would be as good a reason for breaking with holy church, as Harry the Eighth's was for quarrelling with it, because it would not excuse him from going to bed to his sister after it had given him leave.
She knows a great many languages, but she can't speak English since Henry the Eighth's time, when she said to him, 'You be fiddled, which meant, the Scotch should come with their fiddles and rule England. I never pity myself for not being able to jabber French, but I blush for their ignorance. However, all this is neither here nor there.
"If medicine," said Froude, "had been regulated three hundred years ago by Act of Parliament; if there had been Thirty-Nine Articles of Physic, and every licensed practitioner had been compelled, under pains and penalties, to compound his drugs by the prescriptions of Henry the Eighth's physician, Doctor Butts, it is easy to conjecture in what state of health the people of this country would at present be found."
When Charles the Eighth's envoy, Perron de' Baschi, visited Milan in June, he met with polite but vague answers from the Moro, and received no distinct promise of support in the conquest of Naples. But early in September, Count Belgiojoso returned to France, and lost no time in seeking an interview with the king. "Is your Majesty going to undertake the expedition or not?" were his first words.
The earl was then led away, and conveyed to a chamber in the lower part of Henry the Eighth's gate, now used as a place of military punishment, and denominated the "black hole." Of Tristram Lyndwood, the old Forester, and his Grand- daughter Mabel Of the Peril in which the Lady Anne Boleyn was placed during the chase And by whom she was rescued.
George's Chapel, with those of the minor canons, clerks, and other officers; and on the south and west sides of the outer part are the houses of the Poor Knights of Windsor. The Engraving represents the south front of the Chapel as it presents itself to the passenger through Henry the Eighth's Gateway, the principal entrance to the Lower Ward.
Those old walls must have been witness to every kind of human emotion. Henry the Second was there; John, I think; Margaret of Anjou and Cardinal Beaufort; William of Wykeham; Henry the Eighth's Cromwell; and many others who have made some stir in the world. Ellesmere. And, perhaps, the greatest there were those who made no stir. "The world knows nothing of its greatest men." Milverton.
In Henry the Eighth's time there was already a saying among the Italians, "Give the Englishman his beef and mustard," while the English in turn jibed at the Italians for being "like Nebuchadnezzar, always picking of sallets."
Whitaker says that this mistake originated in the illiterate copying out, by some modern stone-cutter, of an inscription in the character of Henry the Eighth's time on an adjoining stone: "Orate pro bono statu Eutest Tod." "Now every antiquary knows that the formula of prayer 'bono statu' always refers to the living.
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