History of Lee and Its Neighbourhood

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author, 1882 - Lee (London, England) - 99 pages
 

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Page 86 - That day she was dressed in white silk, bordered with pearls of the size of beans, and over it a mantle of black silk, shot with silver threads; her train was very long, the end of it borne by a marchioness . ystead of a chain, she had an oblong collar of gold and jewels.
Page 86 - The ladies of the court followed next to her, very handsome and well shaped, and for the most part dressed in white. She was guarded on each side by the gentlemen pensioners, fifty in number, with gilt battle-axes. In the ante-chapel, next the hall, where we were, petitions were presented to her, and she received them most graciously, which occasioned the acclamation of " Long live Queen Elizabeth ! " she answered it with
Page 85 - Queen in the sixty-fifth year of her age, as we were told, very majestic; her face oblong, fair, but wrinkled; her eyes small, yet black and pleasant; her nose a little hooked; her lips narrow, and her teeth black (a defect the English seem subject to, from their too great use of sugar). She had in her ears two pearls, with very rich drops; she wore false hair, and that red; upon her head she had a small crown. . . . Her bosom was uncovered, as all the English ladies have it, till they marry; and...
Page 85 - English seem subject to from their too great use of sugar) ; she had in her ears two pearls, with very rich drops ; she wore false hair, and that red...
Page 2 - THE stately homes of England, How beautiful they stand ! Amidst their tall ancestral trees, O'er all the pleasant land. The deer across their greensward bound, Through shade and sunny gleam, And the swan glides past them with the sound Of some rejoicing stream.
Page 85 - First went gentlemen, barons, earls, knights of the garter, all richly dressed and bare-headed: next came the chancellor, bearing the seals in a red silk purse between two; one of which carried the royal sceptre, the other the sword of state, in a red scabbard, studded with golden fleurs-de-lis, the point upwards...
Page 86 - Italian; for, besides being well skilled in Greek, Latin, and the Languages I have mentioned, she is mistress of Spanish, Scotch, and Dutch: Whoever speaks to her, it is kneeling; now and then she raises some with her Hand.
Page 86 - As she went along in all this state and magnificence she spoke very graciously first to one, then to another, whether foreign ministers, or those who...
Page 84 - ... hospital, in the midst of an amphitheatre of wood, then the two reaches of the river make that beautiful serpentine which forms the Isle of Dogs, and present the floating treasures of the Thames.
Page 93 - HOI, at twelve o'clock, and alighted at a tent of cloth of gold, prepared on the heath for her reception. The King having notice of her arrival, went through the Park to meet her, attended by most of the Nobihly, the Bishops, the Heralds, the foreign Ambassadors, &c.

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