The life of queen Elizabeth [signed M.M.].

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1882
 

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Side 800 - Her own shall bless her; Her foes shake like a field of beaten corn, And hang their heads with sorrow: Good grows with her: In her days, every man shall eat in safety Under his own vine, what he plants; and sing The merry songs of peace to all his neighbours...
Side 798 - YEARS they have been used most extensively as a FAMILY MEDICINE, thousands having found them a simple and safe remedy, and one needful to be kept always at hand. These Pills are purely Vegetable, being entirely free from Mercury or any other Mineral...
Side 812 - Cecil whispered in her ear the news of the prince's birth, all her mirth was laid aside for that night. All prestnt marvelling whence proceeded such a change ; for the queen did sit down, putting her hand under her cheek, bursting out to some of her ladies, that the queen of Scots was mother of a fair son, while she was but a barren stock.
Side 814 - But death crept on. Her face became haggard, and her frame shrank almost to a skeleton. At last her taste for finery disappeared, and she refused to change her dresses for a week together. A strange melancholy settled down on her. "She held in her hand...
Side 810 - have fallen from being princes of this land, to be prisoners in this place; I am raised from being prisoner in this place to be prince of this land. That dejection was a work of God's justice; this advancement is a work of his mercy; as they were to yield patience for the one, so I must bear myself to God thankful, and to men merciful for the other.
Side 814 - is must a word to be addressed to princes? Little man, little man : thy father, if he had been alive, durst not have used that word.
Side 801 - ... she gave humble thanks, inquiring after his majesty's welfare, and that with as great a gravity as she had been forty years old.
Side 804 - For the face I grant I might well blush to offer, but the mind I shall never be ashamed to present. For though from the grace of the picture the colours may fade by time, may give by weather, may be spotted by chance ; yet the other, nor time with her swift wings shall overtake, nor the misty clouds with their lowerings may darken, nor chance with her slippery foot may overthrow.
Side 810 - I give you this charge that you shall be of my privy council, and content yourself to take pains for me and my realm. This judgment I have of you, that you will not be corrupted by any manner of gift, and that you will be faithful to the State...
Side 807 - Here landeth as true a subject, being a prisoner, as ever landed at these stairs ; and before thee, O God ! I speak it, having no other friends but thee alone.

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