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... queen had the principal hand in the deposing and murder of her husband . This kind of danger is then to be feared chiefly when the wives have plots for the raising of their own children , or else that they be advou- tresses . For their ...
... queen had the principal hand in the deposing and murder of her husband . This kind of danger is then to be feared chiefly when the wives have plots for the raising of their own children , or else that they be advou- tresses . For their ...
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... queen Elizabeth of England with bills to sign , but he would always first put her into some discourse of estate , that she might the less mind the bills . The like surprise may be made by moving things when the party is in haste , and ...
... queen Elizabeth of England with bills to sign , but he would always first put her into some discourse of estate , that she might the less mind the bills . The like surprise may be made by moving things when the party is in haste , and ...
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... queen Elizabeth's time , and yet kept good quarter between themselves , and would confer one with another upon the business ; and the one of them said , that to be a secretary in the declination of a monarchy was a ticklish thing , and ...
... queen Elizabeth's time , and yet kept good quarter between themselves , and would confer one with another upon the business ; and the one of them said , that to be a secretary in the declination of a monarchy was a ticklish thing , and ...
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... queen ; whose hearing of a declination of monarchy , took it so ill , as she would never after hear of the other's suit . There is a cunning , which we in England call " The turning of the cat in the pan ; " which is , when that which a ...
... queen ; whose hearing of a declination of monarchy , took it so ill , as she would never after hear of the other's suit . There is a cunning , which we in England call " The turning of the cat in the pan ; " which is , when that which a ...
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... queen mother , who was given to curious arts , caused the king her husband's nativity to be calculated under a false name ; and the astrologer gave a judgment , that he should be killed in a duel ; at which the queen laughed , thinking ...
... queen mother , who was given to curious arts , caused the king her husband's nativity to be calculated under a false name ; and the astrologer gave a judgment , that he should be killed in a duel ; at which the queen laughed , thinking ...
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