 | James Gairdner - Great Britain - 1861 - 551 pages
...debt, — either solicited, allured, and provoked by that old venomous serpent the duchess of Burgoyn, ever being the sower of sedition and beginner of rebellion...and felicity, — in conclusion, with his brother Eichard, fled again into Flanders. This sad chance, I think, happened among the great joys and solaces... | |
 | James Gairdner - Great Britain - 1861 - 562 pages
...debt, — either solicited, allured, and provoked by that old venomous serpent 'the duchess of Burgoyn, ever being the sower of sedition and beginner of rebellion...with envy, which could not patiently with open eyes sec and behold king Henry, being of the adverse lino to his lineage, so long to reign in wealth and... | |
 | Martin Andrew Sharp Hume - Great Britain - 1905 - 524 pages
...plotting : "Solicited, allured and provoked, by that old venomous serpent, the Duchess of Burgundy, ever the sower of sedition and beginner of rebellion against the King of England ; " l but Henry knew well that with Katharine at his Court he could strike a death-blow, as he soon... | |
 | Agnes Ethel Conway, Edmund Curtis - England - 1932 - 306 pages
...Yorkist faction in England.6 Hall, translating Polydore Vergil, calls her "that old venomous serpent, ever being the sower of sedition and beginner of rebellion against the King of England ". Her step-son-in-law, the Emperor Maximilian, is reported to have told the Milanese envoy at his... | |
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... that old venomous serpent the duchess of Burgoyn, ever being the sower of sedition and beginner of rebellion against the king of England, — or else stimulate and pricked with envy, which could not patiently with open eyes see and behold king Henry,... 