The Life of Mrs. GodolphinWilliam Pickering, 1848 - 291 pages |
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againſt allwayes amongſt becauſe beleive beſt Blagge bleffed butt Charles Chriftian circumſtances confiderable converſation Countess of Guilford courſe Court Creature daughter dayes dear defire Diary Duchefs Duke Earl Earl of Danby Evelyn exterordnary faid fatisfaction fecond felfe fent fhall fifter fince firft firſt fitt fome fomething fometymes foone fpeake freind friendſhipp ftill fuch George GODOL Godolphin greateſt herſelfe himſelf holy houſe huſband John John Evelyn Lady Lady Berkeley Ladyfhipp laſt leaſt lefs LIERS Lord Berkeley maid of honour married Mary moft moſt muſt never occafion paffed paffion perfon PHIN pleaſed pleaſure pray prayers preſent preſerved purpoſe putt Queen refolution ſay ſervice ſhall ſhe ſhould ſhipp Sir John Berkeley SIR WILLIAM VILLIERS ſome ſpeake ſpent ſtill theſe thing thofe thoſe thouſand tion tyme vifitt VILLIERS vpon whilft whofe whome whoſe wife William wiſh witt yett
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Page 243 - Duchess marked his weary pace, His timid mien, and reverend face, And bade her page the menials tell That they should tend the old man well : For she had known adversity, Though born in such a high degree ; In pride of power, in beauty's bloom, Had wept o'er Monmouth's bloody tomb...
Page 98 - ... amidst all this pomp and serious impertinence, whilst the rest were acting, and that her part was sometymes to goe off, as the scenes required, into the tireing roome, where severall Ladyes her companions were railing with the Gallants trifleingly enough till they were called to reenter, she vnder pretence of conning her next part, was retired into a Corner, reading a booke of devotion, without att all concerning herselfe or mingling with the young Company ; as if she had no farther part to act,...
Page 258 - What mad freaks the Mayds of Honour at Court have : that Mrs. Jenings,1 one of the Duchess's maids, the other day dressed herself like an orange wench, and went up and down and cried oranges ; till, falling down, or by some accident, her fine shoes were discerned, and she put to a great deal of shame...
Page 38 - Reflections ; and that you freely command me vpon all occasions without any reserve whatsoever : you are to write to me when I am absent ; mention me in all your prayers to God, to admonish me of all my failings, to...
Page 234 - Blagge's proceedings during the remainder of Charles's life has been met with. Upon the death of Charles he tranfferred his loyalty and his fervices to the young and exiled monarch, and joined in the attempt which he made to obtain his crown and kingdom. After the lofs of the battle of Worcefter, on the 3rd September, 1651, Charles fled towards the North, accompanied by the Duke of Buckingham, the Earls of Derby and Lauderdale, Lords Talbot and Wilmot, (afterwards Earl of Rochefter), Col. Blagge...
Page 235 - So all the persons of quality and officers who were with me, (except my Lord Wilmot, with whom a place was agreed upon for our meeting at London, if we escaped, and who endeavoured to go on horseback, in regard, as I think, of his being too big to go on foot,) were resolved to go and join with the three thousand disordered horse, thinking to get away with them to Scotland.
Page 282 - And fo they departing, immediately after he was apprehended (as is fhewed) and condemned to be burned. When this was heard among them of the Privy Chamber, the King, hearing them whifpering together (which he could never abide) commanded them to tell him the matter.
Page 97 - ... which I hoped would never have proceeded farther. Dear friend, I begg your prayers this cloudy Weather, that God would endow me with patience and resignation. Would you believe itt, there are some that envy me the honour (as they esteeme it) of acting in this play, and pass malitious Jests upon me. Now you know I am to turne the other cheeke, nor take I notice of it.
Page 215 - I will never play this halfe year butt att 3 penny omber, and then with one att halves. I will not ; I doe not vow, but I will not doe it, — what...
Page xv - I was witness of, the King sitting and toying with his concubines, Portsmouth, Cleveland, and Mazarine, &c., a French boy singing love-songs,* in that glorious gallery, whilst about twenty of the great courtiers and other dissolute persons were at Basset round a large table, a bank of at least 2000 in gold before them ; upon which two gentlemen who were with me made reflections with astonishment. Six days after was all in the dust...