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... Court , for Elizabeth loved plays as much as her people loved them . She loved splendour and pageantry and music , and the Court writers took care that there should be all these in the perform- ances given before her . The first of the ...
... Court , for Elizabeth loved plays as much as her people loved them . She loved splendour and pageantry and music , and the Court writers took care that there should be all these in the perform- ances given before her . The first of the ...
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... Court came clever party pamphlets and brilliant , witty verse ; but the Elizabethans had nearly all dropped away , and there was no one to take their places . Nearly all the lighthearted young noblemen of the Court could , like their ...
... Court came clever party pamphlets and brilliant , witty verse ; but the Elizabethans had nearly all dropped away , and there was no one to take their places . Nearly all the lighthearted young noblemen of the Court could , like their ...
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... Court was decorous and dull - as different as it could well be from the Court of Charles II . The citizens had been steadily increasing in riches and im- portance . We have seen how they held aloof from the Court in the reign of Charles ...
... Court was decorous and dull - as different as it could well be from the Court of Charles II . The citizens had been steadily increasing in riches and im- portance . We have seen how they held aloof from the Court in the reign of Charles ...
Contents
CHAPTER PAGE I THE LAYS OF THE FIGHTINGMEN | 13 |
THE SINGERS OF THE CHURCH | 26 |
THE MONKS AND THEIR BOOKS | 32 |
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