 | Biography - 1762 - 668 pages
...fingulaily favour me as any fubjcc} within this " realm. However, fon Roper, I may tell thee, I have " no caufe to be proud thereof: for if my head would win f him a caftle in France, it fliould not fail to go." In 1523, he was chofen fpeaker of the houfe of... | |
 | Encyclopaedia Perthensis - 1806 - 774 pages
...fo familiarly treated by the king : to which Sir Thomas replied. I muft tell thee, I have no c.iufe to be proud thereof; for if my head would win him a calile- in France, it would not f.iil to go off." In ijjo he was fent, with Cardinal Woifey and others,... | |
 | John Watkins - Authors, English - 1808 - 568 pages
...singularly favour me as any subject within this realm ; howbeit son Roper, I must tell thee I have no cause to be proud thereof, for if my head would win him a castle in France, it would not fail to go off." Henry himself had no small portion of facetiousness... | |
 | Liber - Anecdotes - 1809 - 372 pages
...singularly favour me as any subject in this realm. However son Roper, I may tell thee, I have no cause to be proud thereof; for if my head would win him a castle in .France, it would not fail to be struck off." Macdiarmid's Lives, p. 53. WHEN the late earl... | |
 | Thomas Faulkner - Chelsea (London, England) - 1810 - 514 pages
...singularly love me as any subject within this realm ; however, son Roper, I may tell thee I have no cause to be proud thereof; for if my head would win him a castle in France it should not fail to go off." ' Whilst this king's unlucky divorce was so hotly pursued,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1815 - 570 pages
...singularly favour me as any subject within this realm. However, son Roper, I may tell thee, I have no cause to be proud thereof ; for, if my head would win him a castle in France, it should not fail to go." In 1523, he was chosen speaker of the House of Commons... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1815 - 572 pages
...singularly favour me as any subject within this realm. However, son Roper, I may tell thee, I have no cause to be proud thereof: for, if my head would win him a castle in France, it should not fail to go." In, 1523, he was chosen speaker of the House of Commons... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1815 - 564 pages
...singularly favour me as any subject within this realm. However, son Roper, I may tell thee, I have no cause to be proud thereof : for, if my head would win him a castle in France, it should not fail to go." In 1523, he was chosen speaker of the House of Commons... | |
 | Charles Butler - Catholics - 1819 - 476 pages
...favour me as any subject within this " realm. ^Howbeit, son Roper, I may tell thee, I " have no cause to be proud thereof; for, if my head " would win him a castle in France, it should not " fail to go." More foresaw the Reformation, and its effects. Mr. Roper... | |
 | John Macdiarmid - 1820 - 412 pages
...singularly favour me as any subject in this realm. However, son Roper, I may tell thee, I have no cause to be proud thereof, for if my head would win him a castle in France, it would not fail to be struck off." * Yet More, while thus aware of the capricious... | |
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I find His Grace my very good lord indeed, and I believe he doth as singularly favour me as any subject within this Realm; howbeit, son Roper, I may tell thee I have no cause to be proud thereof, for if my head would win him a castle in France (for then... 
