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And that the Mayor and Aldermen had offered him their own houses for himself and his officers; and that his soldiers would lack for nothing. And indeed I saw many people give the soldiers drink and money, and all along in the streets cried, "God bless them!" and extraordinary good words. Hence we went to a merchant's house hard by, where Lock wrote a note and left, where I saw Sir Nich.
But the world do think that there is some design on one side or other, either of the Dutch or French, for it is not likely a fellow would invent such a lie to get money whereas he might have hoped for a better reward by telling something in behalf of us to please us. Thence to the Sun taverne, and there dined with Sir W. Warren and Mr. Gifford, the merchant: and I hear how Nich.
Communiqué aux Ambassadeurs en Angleterre, Autriche-Hongrie, Italie, Allemagne. No. 59. Le Chargé d'Affaires en Serbie au Ministre des Affaires Etrangères. Nich, le 17/30 Juillet 1914.
"Why under her window? why didn't she write you to call?" "Probably she will, but it's more romantic to say, 'be under my window." "Well, perhaps it is; only you know I don't know much about such things." "Of course not, Paul," said Mr. Benton; "you're only a boy, you know." "Are you going to be under her window, Nich, I mean Mr. Benton?" "Of course. Do you think I would miss the appointment?
To stum wine is to renew dead and insipid wine by mixing new wine with it and so raising a fresh fermentation. cf. p. 176 Grisons. Shadwell's The Volunteers , Act ii, sc. I: 'Sir Nich. I keep grisons, fellows out of livery, privately for nothing but to carry answers. p. 183 Laurence, Lord Hyde.
Hence we went to a merchant's house hard by, where I saw Sir Nich. He had advanced large sums to assist Charles I., who created him a Baronet. Hence we went homewards, it being about ten at night. But the common joy that was every where to be seen! The number of bonfires, there being fourteen between St. Dunstan's and Temple Bar, and at Strand Bridge I could at one time tell thirty-one fires.
Then to horse, and for London through the forest, where we found the way good, but only in one path, which we kept as if we had rode through a canal all the way. We found the shops all shut, and the militia of the red regiment in arms at the Old Exchange, among whom I found and spoke to Nich. Osborne, who told me that it was a thanksgiving-day through the City for the return of the Parliament.
One of a pair of fleet bloodhounds which were ever leashed together was named Nich, and the other Syn, in memory that he had been betrothed on the festival of Saint Nicodemus and wedded on Saint Synesius' day.
The little nich represented in plate one, is too small for the pupils to get their fingers into, so as to pull up the plate, but wide enough to allow the teacher to put a very narrow key in, when he desires to pull up the plate to put the lesson-post in the socket.
At Liskeard, after refreshing their men, and holding next day a solemn thanksgiving to God, they divided the Lord Mohun with Sir Ralph Hopton and Colonel Godolphin marching with the greater part of the army upon Saltash, whither Ruthen had fled and was entrenching himself; while Sir John Berkeley and Colonel Ashburnham, with a small party of horse and dragoons and the voluntary regiments of Sir Bevill Grenville, Sir Nich.
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