 | Horace Walpole - English literature - 1806 - 428 pages
...mentions this distich, in which her majesty gave the characters of four knights of Nottinghamshire : Gervase the gentle, Stanhope the stout, Markham the lion, and Sutton the lout. Vide Chesterfield. Fuller records an English hexameter, composed by this queen, in imitation of sir... | |
 | Horace Walpole - English literature - 1806 - 454 pages
...this distich, in which her majesty gave the characters of four knights of Nottinghamshire: Gcrvasc the gentle, Stanhope the stout, Markham the lion, and Sutton the lout. Vide Chesterfield. Fuller records an English hexameter, composed by this queen, in imitation of Sir... | |
 | Rowland Freeman - Authors, English - 1821 - 846 pages
...following distich, in which her Majesty gave the characters of four Knights of Nottinghamshire : — " Gervase the gentle, Stanhope the stout, Markham the lion, and Sutton the lout." fuller records on English hexameter, composed by this queen in imitation of Sir P. Sidney. Comiug into... | |
 | Agnes Strickland - Queens - 1848 - 388 pages
...with the impromptu couplet she made on the names of four knights of the county of Nottinghamshire : " Gervase the gentle, Stanhope the stout, Markham the lion ; and Sutton the lout." She detested, as ominous, all dwarfs and monsters, and seldom could be induced to bestow an appointment,... | |
 | David Frederick Markham - 1854 - 220 pages
...arms, earning for himself a place in that distich of the maiden queen in which she celebrated her four Nottinghamshire knights. " Gervase the gentle,* Stanhope the stout, Markham the lion, and Button the lout." When Sir Robert died I have not discovered, but he was living during a great part... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - England - 1855 - 54 pages
...three other Nottinghamshire Knights, is said to have described them in a couplet as follows : — " Gervase the gentle ; Stanhope the stout ; " Markham the lion ; and Sutton the lout." Gervase here is Sir Gervase Clifton. Of the four Knights, it •will be seen that Sutton only had cause... | |
 | Agnes Strickland - Queens - 1857 - 730 pages
...with the impromptu couplet she made on the names of four nights of the county of Nottinghamshire : " Gervase the gentle, Stanhope the stout, Markham the lion; and Sutton the lout." She detested, as ominous, all dwarfs and monsters, and seldom could be induced to bestow an appointment,... | |
 | John Jones (of Harewood.) - 1859 - 344 pages
...of Meek, Esq. 5. Anne, daughter of Sir Francis South. 6. Jane, daughter of Antonio Eyre, of Rampton, Esq. 7. Alice, daughter of Henry Hastings, Earl of...Benson, Esq., the first Lord Bingley, the founder of the Bramham Park estate; this nobleman died in 1731, leaving the property to an only daughter Harriett,... | |
 | John Langton Sanford, Meredith White Townsend - History - 1865 - 406 pages
...Chesterfield family. He is the Stanhope alluded to in the distich attributed to the Queen upon the Nottinghamshire knights — " Gervase the gentle,...the stout, Markham the lion, and Sutton the lout." Sir Thomas Stanhope died August 3, 1596, and his eldest son, Sir John, was knighted by James I., and... | |
 | Alexander Balloch Grosart - English literature - 1871 - 616 pages
...county. Hi name is introduced in the famous distich of the Queen, in which she celebrated her four Nottinghamshire knights. " Gervase the gentle, Stanhope...the stout, MARKHAM THE LION, and Sutton the lout." I * SIB KOBEBT MABKHAM' s main family-residence latterly, was GOTHAM : and hence he is known as MABKHAM... | |
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Elizabeth not unfrequently indulged in jests herself. Every one is familiar with the impromptu couplet she made on the names of four knights of the county of Nottinghamshire : " Gervase the gentle, Stanhope the stout, Markham the lion ; and Sutton the... 
