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Updated: May 19, 2025
It was in this castle that the famous Lucretia Borgia lived, whom Victor Hugo has made such a monster for us, and whom Ariosto depicts as a model of chastity, grace and virtue; that blonde Lucretia who wrote letters breathing the purest love, and some of whose hair, fine as silk and shining as gold, Byron possest.
Having become possest of such invaluable and sacred objects, Louis desired to have them housed with suitable magnificence. The monument breathes throughout the ecstatic piety of the mystic king; it was consecrated in 1248, in the name of the Holy Crown and the Holy Cross, by Eudes de Chateauroux, Bishop of Tusculum and papal legate. Three things should be noted about the Sainte Chapelle.
"Hail, Poetess! for thou art truly blest, Of wit, of beauty, and of love possest, Your muse does seem to bless poor Bowes's fate, But far 'tis from you to desire her state, In every line your wanton soul appears. Your verse, tho' smooth, scarce fit for modest ears, No pangs of jealous fondness doth thou shew.
The chief and 600 men were left dead on the spot, and the Spaniards, having smoothed away that obstacle, entered the town, which they spoiled of all the gold and valuables it possest.
It is but seldom that we find a touch of that easy slyness which gives an additional zest to surprise; but here is an instance: “See Tityrus, with merriment possest, Is burst with laughter ere he hears the jest, What need he stay, for when the joke is o’er, His teeth will be no whiter than before.”
Now whilest the ambassador was thus strongly possest of the Emperours fauor, he imployed himselfe in all he might, not onely for the speedy dispatch of the negociation he had in hand, but laboured also by all the good means he might, further to benefit his country and countreymen, and so not long after wanne at the Emperours hands not onely all those things he had in commission to treat for by his instructions, but also some other of good and great importance, for the benefit of the merchants.
Take notice I am affronted in your Lodgings for you, Bellmour You take me for an Ass therefore meet me to morrow Morning about five, with your Sword in your Hand, behind Southampton House. Bel. Dull Animal! The Gods cou'd ne'er decree So bright a Maid shou'd be possest by thee. SCENE I. A Palace. Enter Nurse with a Light. Nur.
It is for this very reason that it is so necessary that this examination should be rigorously undertaken every day and with all the good faith of which we are possest.
Let him hardly be possest with an honest curiositie to search out the nature and causes of all things: let him survay whatsoever is rare and singular about him; a building, a fountaine, a man, a place where any battell hath been fought, or the passages of Caesar or Charlemaine. What land is parcht with heat, what clog'd with frost. What wind drives kindly to th' Italian coast.
There are healing and splendid mineral waters for common use all over the country lying idle and awaiting the days when its owners will be possest by the spirit of enterprise. Borszek, Szováta, and many others are all wonders in their way, waters that would bring in millions to their owners if only worked properly.
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