 | C J. M - 1857 - 414 pages
...to the quick. After a moment's pause, regardless of the consequences to himself or Anne, he calmly replied, " And if it may like your majesty to give me leave to measure it, I hope to prove it mine." So saying, he took the tablet from his neck, and with the cord proceeded deliberately... | |
 | Francis Lancelott - Queens - 1858 - 1134 pages
...addressed him in the same significant manner, bent to pleasure, he replied ' If it may please your majestie to give me leave to measure it, I hope it will be mine, and withal took from his neck the lasc wercat hung the tablet, and therewith stooped,to measure the cast, which the king espiinge knew... | |
 | Sir Thomas Wyatt - English poetry - 1866 - 356 pages
...knew, and pausing a little, and finding the King bent to pleasure, after the words repeated again by the King, the knight replied, 'And if it may like...from his neck the lace whereat hung the tablet, and therewith stooped to measure the cast, which the King espying, knew, and had seen her wear, and therewithal... | |
 | William Hepworth Dixon - Great Britain - 1874 - 432 pages
...the ring, and knowing whose it was, replied with jest for jest, as minstrel might reply to palmer; ' If it may like your Majesty to give me leave to measure it, I hope it will be mine.' Taking off his lace, and stooping to measure the cast with Anne's riband, the poet let Henry see the... | |
 | William Hepworth Dixon - 1874 - 566 pages
...the ring, and knowing whose it was, replied with jest for jest, as minstrel might reply to palmer: "If it may like your Majesty to give me leave to measure it, I hope it will be mine." Taking off his lace, and stooping to measure the cast with Anne's riband, the poet let Henry see the... | |
 | Great Britain. Public Record Office - Archives - 1875 - 726 pages
...and pausing a little, and finding the " King bent to pleasure, after the words repeated again " by the King, the knight replied,' And if it may like...took from his neck the " lace whereat hung the tablet (miniature), and there" with stooped to measure the cast; which the King " espying, knew, and had seen... | |
 | Arthur Cayley Headlam - Religion - 1877 - 572 pages
...bent to pleasure, after the words repeated again by the King, the knight replied, " And if it maylike your Majesty to give me leave to measure it, I hope...from his neck the lace whereat hung the tablet, and therewith stooped to measure the cast ; which the King espying knew, and had seen her wear, and therewith... | |
 | Arthur Cayley Headlam - Religion - 1877 - 568 pages
...bent to pleasure, after the words repeated again by the King, the knight replied, " And if it maylike your Majesty to give me leave to measure it, I hope...from his neck the lace whereat hung the tablet, and therewith stooped to measure the cast ; which the King espying knew, and had seen her wear, and therewith... | |
 | William Outram Tristram - Architecture, Domestic - 1910 - 514 pages
...looking at the ring with much attention, he tuned himself to Henry's own allegory, and remarking, " If it may like your Majesty to give me leave to measure it, I hope it will be mine," drew from his neck the lace with Anne Boleyn's jewel pendant, and stooped to measure the disputed cast.... | |
 | Mary Hastings Bradley - 1912 - 426 pages
...news, Helen — " •" Nay, the best comes . . . Wyatt but laughed at this and said in his gay way, ' And if it may like your Majesty to give me leave to measure the cast with this I have good hope it may yet be mine,' and he drew out from his bosom the chain and... | |
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And if it may like your majesty to give me leave to measure it, I hope it will be mine... 
