 | Sir Sidney Low, Frederick Sanders Pulling - 1884 - 1244 pages
...dress, she requited him by vowing that, " If ho held more discourse on such matters, she would tit him for heaven ; but he should walk thither without a staff, and leavo his mantle behind him." Ayscough, or Ayscue, Si« GKOROF. (d. \ti~3':), ,was the son of a Lincolnshire... | |
 | Samuel Macnaughton - 1884 - 348 pages
...vanity in dress, so that her conscience reproved her, she told her ladies that if the bishop would again discourse on such matters, she would " fit him for heaven ; but he would have to walk thither without a staff, and leave his mantle behind him." It is necessary to note... | |
 | Agnes Strickland - 1885 - 824 pages
...preached to the queen's majesty, and seemed to touch on the vanity of decking the body too finely. Her majesty told the ladies, ' That if the bishop...such matters, she would fit him for heaven ; but he shfluld walk thither without a staff, and leave his mantle behind him.' ' Perchance the bishop hatl... | |
 | Walter Baxendale - 1888 - 708 pages
...to the Queen's Majesty (Elizabeth), and seemed to touch the vanity of decking the body too finely. Her Majesty told the ladies that "if the Bishop held...without a staff, and leave his mantle behind him." — Kir John Uarrin'jton. 1721. DRINK, a poison. Cyrus, when a youth, being at the court of his grandfather... | |
 | Sarah Warner Brooks - 1890 - 520 pages
...preached to the Queen's Majesty, and seemed to touch on the vanity of decking the body too finely. Her Majesty told the ladies that if the bishop held...thither without a staff and leave his mantle behind him. . . . Perchance," he shrewdly adds, "the bishop hath not seen her Highness's wardrobe." Well might... | |
 | Elizabeth Stansbury Kirkland - 1891 - 428 pages
...the Bishop of London preached before her on the vanity of decking the body too finely, she told her ladies that if the bishop held more discourse on such...without a staff", and leave his mantle behind him.* In other words, he should lose his bishopric. One practice in the reign of Elizabeth which we should... | |
 | Sir Sidney Low, Frederick Sanders Pulling - 1897 - 1184 pages
...having offended the queen by preaching against dress, she requited him by vowing that, " If he held moro discourse on such matters, she would fit him for heaven ; but he should walk thither without a stall', and leave his mantle behind him." Ayscougli, or Ayscue, SIK GEORGE (tl. 1673 '(), was the son... | |
 | Percy Dearmer - 1898 - 396 pages
...who, by his sermon against dress, drew from Elizabeth the threat that ' If he held more discourse of such matters, she would fit him for heaven ; but he...without a staff, and leave his mantle behind him.' 3 lit makf you weary of it dumbt John, except you leave persecuting. can say unto the preachers, now... | |
 | Francis Overend White - 1898 - 446 pages
...of the queen, or that which did duty for it in the royal breast, and she told her ladies afterwards, that " if the bishop held more discourse on such matters she would fit him for Heaven ; but he should go there without a staff and leave his mantle behind him."2 As a preacher he was eminently scriptural.... | |
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Sunday (April last)," pursues our courtly gossip, " my lord of London preached to the queen's majesty, and seemed to touch on the vanity of decking the body too finely. Her majesty told the ladies, ' That if the bishop held more discourse on such matters,... 
