 English court in good habit (his clothes being then a considerable part of his estate), found the queen walking, till, meeting with a plashy place, she seemed to scruple going thereon. Presently Raleigh cast and spread his new plush cloak on the ground...  Sir Walter Raleigh: A Biography - Page 24by William Stebbing - 1891 - 413 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Oldys - Great Britain - 1740 - 588 pages
...genteel Habit of thofe Times) prefently caft off and fpread his new Plufh- cloak on the Ground, wbgreon the Queen trod gently over, rewarding him afterwards with many Suits for his fo free and feafonable Tender offo fair a Foot- cloth : Thus an advantageous Admijfion into, the Notice... | |
 | Nathaniel Wanley - Characters and characteristics - 1806 - 590 pages
...spread his new plush cloak on the ground, whereon the queen trod gently, rewarding him after wards with many suits for his so free and seasonable tender of so fair a foot-cloth. An advantageous admittance into the first notice of a prince, is more than half a degree to preferment.... | |
 | Nathaniel Wanley - Characters and characteristics - 1806 - 552 pages
...spread his new plush cloak on the ground, whereon the queen trod gently, rewarding him after wards with many suits for his so free and seasonable tender of so fa' ra foot-cloth. An advantageous admittance into the first notice of a prince, is more than half... | |
 | England - 1918 - 1062 pages
...presently Ralegh oast and spread his new plush oloak on the ground, whereon the Queen trod gently, rewarding him afterwards with many suits for his so free and seasonable tender of so fair a foot-oloth." So Fuller writes with essential truth. Had Ralegh met the Queen in a plashy place, he... | |
 | Richard Warner - 1824 - 506 pages
...spread his new plush cloak on the ground, whereupon the queen trod gently, rewarding him thereafter with many suits for his so free and seasonable tender of so fair a foot-clo$i" The more probable occasion, however, of the first interview of Rawleigh with Elizabeth,... | |
 | Sir Walter Raleigh - 1829 - 714 pages
..." Her majesty meeting," says my author, " with a plashy place, made some scruple to go on ; " when Ralegh (dressed in the gay and genteel habit of "...free and " seasonable tender of so fair a footcloth. Thus an advan" tagcous admission,'" says he, " into the notice of a prince " is more than liaifa degree... | |
 | Anecdotes - 1852 - 670 pages
...plush cloak on the ground, whereon the queen trod gently, rewarding him afterwards with шапу suite hadhtwvtaMxMf&v to яоше wounded officers who lay in the s " An advantageous admittance into the first notice of a prince, is more than half a degree of preferment.... | |
 | Anecdotes - 1839 - 674 pages
...plush cloak on the ground, whereon the queen trod gently, rewarding him afterwards with many snits for his so free and seasonable tender of so fair a foot-cloth. " An advantageous admittance into the first notice of a prince, is more than half a degree of preferment.... | |
 | Agnes Strickland - 1840 - 600 pages
...of chivalry, spread it reverentially on the ground, before her majesty, " whereon," says our author, "the queen trod gently over, rewarding him afterwards...for his so free and seasonable tender of so fair a fbotcloth."1 1 Old Life of Sir Walter Raleigh. Soon after this auspicious introduction to the royal... | |
 | Thomas Fuller - England - 1840 - 626 pages
...Presently Raleigh cast and spread his new plush cloak on the ground ; whereon the queen trod gently, rewarding him afterwards with many suits, for his so free and seasonable tender of so fair a foot cloth. Thus an advantageous admission into the first notice of a prince is more than half a degree... | |
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