 | Lucy Aikin - 1872 - 566 pages
...leave you to your fortunes and to the queen's grace and goodness : but beware of the Gipsy (meaning Leicester), for he will be too hard for you all ; you know not the beast so well as I do.' \Nauntoifs Fragmenta Regalia.] This earl left no children ; and his widow became... | |
 | William Edward Flaherty - 1877 - 230 pages
...of Leicester, against whom he warned Ms friends on his death-bed. *' Beware of the Gipsy," he said, "for he will be too hard for you all; you know not the beast so well as I do." Sussex died July 9, 1583, and was buried at Boreham, in Essex, where he had raised... | |
 | S. Hubert Burke - Great Britain - 1883 - 594 pages
...I must leave you to your fortunes and the Queen's grace and goodness. But beware of the gipsy,* or he will be too hard for you all; you know not the nature of the beast as well as I do."t On his death-bed Sussex, like many others, returned to the religion... | |
 | Walter Rye - Norfolk (England) - 1885 - 368 pages
...Bermondsey, and is reported to have said to his friends on his deathbed, 4 " beware of the Gypsie, for he will be too hard for you all: you know not the Beast as well as I do." " LADY LENOx (p. 37), who was also of the Blood Royal of Scotland, as all men know, and therefore little... | |
 | Francis Lancelott - Queens - 1894 - 586 pages
...and must leave you to your fortunes, and to the Queen's grace and goodness : but beware of the yip*y Leicester, for he will be too hard for you all ; you know not the beast so well" as I do !" About this period [1566] the beautiful Lady Mary Grey, sister to the celebrated... | |
 | Gerald Maclean Edwards - Education, Higher - 1899 - 274 pages
...graces ; but beware of the ' Gypsy ' (so he called Leicester on account of his swarthy complexion) ; for he will be too hard for you all. You know not the beast so well as I do." During the Earl's illness some malicious persons (belonging to the Leicester faction,... | |
 | Edward T. Clarke - Bermondsey (London, England) - 1901 - 328 pages
...beware of the gipsy (as he was accustomed tc call Leicester, on account of his dark complexion) — he will be too hard for you all : you know not the nature of the beast as well as I do." Stow, in his Chronicle, gives the following account of the ceremonies... | |
 | Gladys Edson Locke - 1913 - 316 pages
...grace and goodness, but beware of the gypsy (meaning Leicester, who was dark of hair and complexion) for he will be too hard for you all ; you know not the beast so well as I do." Sir Christopher Hatton, another conspicuous figure at the Court of the Maiden Monarch,... | |
 | Rachel Robertson Reid - Great Britain - 1921 - 560 pages
...•• 13 Eliz. cc. 1, 2, 12. " When dying, Sussex warned his friends : "Beware of the Gipr" fc — "" be too hard for you all ; you know not the Beast as well as Bar. Angl. ii. p. 287. •• Cat. SP Dom. Add. 1S66-79, pp. 179, 194-5, 200. commission), and now... | |
 | 1840 - 598 pages
...gentle discipline of Leicester, her hair fell off, and her nails dropped out, and she complied. The Earl of Essex " travelled the same road, by the same conveyance."...many others of like import, receive confirmation from Camden 's statement, that Leicester proposed in council, that Mary, Queen of Scots, should be removed... | |
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I am now passing into another world, and I must leave you to your fortunes, and the queen's grace and goodness; but beware of the gipsy, (meaning Leicester,) for he will be too hard for you all, you know not the beast so well as I do. 
