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Page xv - ... laid in his coffin, with much solemnity. The service for the dead was chanted, and Charles joined in the prayers which were offered up for the rest of his soul, mingling his tears with those which his attendants shed, as if they had been celebrating a real funeral. The ceremony closed with sprinkling holy water on the coffin in the usual form, and, all the assistants retiring, the doors of the chapel were shut. Then Charles rose out of the coffin, and withdrew to his apartment, full of those...
Page 43 - I ever saw — he had his head in the glass five times as long as any of us, and never drank less than a good quart at once of Rhenish wine...
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Page xv - He himself followed in his shroud. He was laid in his coffin, with much solemnity. The service for the dead was chanted, and Charles joined in the prayers which were offered up for the...
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| Title | The Cloister Life of the Emperor Charles the Fifth |
| Author | William Stirling Maxwell |
| Edition | 2 |
| Publisher | Crosby, Nichols, 1853 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 27 Apr 2006 |
| Length | 322 pages |
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