...Queen visited the archiepiscopal palace, on her departure she turned to thank Mrs. Parker: "And you — madam I may not call you, mistress I am ashamed to call you, so I reigns. The result of its visitation in 1559 shows how little real conviction existed among the...

...days of good Queen Bess. Her Majesty's shaft of pleasantry was worded with her usual incisiveness. " Madam I may not call you ; mistress I am ashamed to call you ; but yet I thank you for your good cheer." It was recorded of two sons of Mrs. Parker who grew to...

...of the bishops and clergy. She is reputed to have said to the wife of Archbishop Parker : " Madame I may not call you, Mistress I am ashamed to call you, but yet I thank you." In the injunctions of 1559 there are regulations concerning the marriage of the...

...she receive and entertain the Queen once at Canterbury that she heartily thanked her on leaving, but said, " Madam I may not call you; Mistress I am ashamed to call you; but yet I thank you." Let us hope, however, that this is apocryphal. Of course, however, as an Author...

...Archbishop Parker at Croydon Palace in 1567 and again in 1573, and the acidulated remark to his wife, " Madam I may not call you ; mistress I am ashamed to call you," was made at the conclusion of one of these visits. Elizabeth was always averse to the marriage of priests,...

...suppress her dislike of clerical matrimony, took leave of her hostess with the oft-quoted words : ' Madam I may not call you; mistress I am ashamed to call you; Parker 262 but yet I thank you ' (Nuyce Antiques, ii 46). Parker had four sons, of whom two, Matthew...

...loose upon the unoffending wife of Archbishop Parker when she took her leave. " Madam," she said, " I may not call you ; mistress I am ashamed to call you ; and so I know not what to call you ; but, however, I thank you." It seems evident that the daughter...

...loose upon the unoffending wife of Archbishop Parker when she took her leave. " Madam," she said, " I may not call you ; mistress I am ashamed to call you ; and so I know not what to call you ; but, however. I thank you." It seems evident that the daughter...

...Canterbury. It was Parker's wife whom Elizabeth thanked for her hospitality in a famous sentence : " Madam I may not call you ; Mistress I am ashamed to call you ; so I know not what to call you ; but yet I do thank you." Parker was a " mighty collector " of books...

...Parker after a visit to the archiepiscopal palace, she could only say to her hostess: "And you — madam I may not call you, mistress I am ashamed to call you, so I know not what to call you — but, howsoever, I thank you."67 A reformed clergy was one thing,...