 | Thomas Walker Horsfield - Genealogy - 1824 - 496 pages
...you rode on, and said it was the dullest creature you ever met with ; to which my brother Humphrey replied, ' my liege, can you blame the horse to go...majesty grew somewhat lighter, and commended brother Humphrey's wit." In like manner did this poor peasant entertain Charles and his courtiers, until his... | |
 | Books - 1826 - 382 pages
...which Humphrey, in repartee, took the liberty of answering, beyond the usual capacity of a miller, " My Liege ! can you blame the horse to go heavily,...when he has the weight of three kingdoms on his back ?" Having brought the king so far, we shall now insert, entire, the manuscript of Mr. Whitgreave, who... | |
 | Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - Bibliography - 1826 - 384 pages
...which Humphrey, in repartee, took the liberty of answering, beyond the usual capacity of a miller, " My Liege ! can you blame the horse to go heavily,...when he has the weight of three kingdoms on his back ?" Having brought the king so far, we shall now insert, entire, the manuscript of Mr. Whitgreave, who... | |
 | Reuben Percy - Anecdotes - 1826 - 384 pages
...the horse was " the heaviest dull jade he ever rode on ;" to which Humphrey 1'enderel very happily replied, " My liege, can you blame the horse to go...heavily, when he has the weight of three kingdoms on liis back?" On reaching Mosely, where Lord Wilmot was concealed in the house of a Mr. Whitgreaves,... | |
 | John Burke, Bernard Burke - Genealogy - 1846 - 414 pages
...with a pitiful old saddle and a worse bridle ; not attended with royal guards, but with half a dozen raw and undisciplined rustics, who had little else...sufficient pension on him for life, on which he lived within tfie vicinity of the court until the 8th of February, 1671 (twenty years after the fatal battle... | |
 | Anthony Hamilton (Count), Charles II (King of England), Thomas Blount - Gramont, Philibert, comte de, 1621-1707 - 1846 - 572 pages
...rode on ; " to which Humphrey (the owner of him) answered (beyond the usual capacity of a miller), " My liege, can you blame the horse to go heavily, when...he has the weight of three kingdoms on his back?" ' . When his majesty came to Penford mill, within two miles of Mr. Whitgreave's house, his guides desired... | |
 | Anthony Hamilton (Count) - Great Britain - 1846 - 602 pages
...rode on ; " to which Humphrey (the owner of him) answered (beyond the usual capacity of a miller), " My liege, can you blame the horse to go heavily, when he has the weight of three kingdoms on his backj " When his majesty came to Penford mill, within two miles of Mr. Whitgreave's house, his guides... | |
 | Charles Jobson Lyon - Great Britain - 1851 - 346 pages
...ever met with ; to which my brother Humphrey replied, ' My liege, can you blame the horse for going heavily, when he has the weight of three kingdoms on his back r At which your Majesty grew somewhat lighter, and commended brother Humphrey's wit." In like manner... | |
 | 1858 - 422 pages
...rode, surrounded by his defenders. " Can you blame the horse, my liege," said the honest miller, " to go heavily, when he has the weight of three kingdoms on his back ? " On reaching Penford Mill, below Ootaall, to which point they had proceeded by lone byways, for... | |
 | Anthony Hamilton (Count), Charles II (King of England), Thomas Blount - Great Britain - 1853 - 568 pages
...rode on ; " to which Humphrey (the owner of him) answered (beyond the usual capacity of a miller), " My liege, can you blame the horse to go heavily, when he has the weight of three kingdoms on his back ? " When his majesty came to Penford mill, within two miles of Mr. Whitgreave's house, his guides desired... | |
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My liege, can you blame the horse to go heavily, when he has the weight of three kingdoms on his back? 
