 The well-known anecdote best illustrates their intimate familiarity. As they rode through the streets of London on a bleak winter day they met a beggar in rags. " Would it not be charity," said the king, " to give that fellow a cloak, and cover him from...  Life of Thomas À Becket - Page 20by Henry Hart Milman - 1860 - 246 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Henry Hart Milman - Papacy - 1854 - 578 pages
...king in all but name : the world, it was said, had never seen two friends so entirely of one mind.0 The well-known anecdote best illustrates their intimate...secret envy of the courtiers at this proof of Becket's favour, to the shivering beggar .d But it was in the graver affairs of the realm that Henry derived... | |
 | Henry Hart Milman - 1861 - 566 pages
...king in all but name : the world, it was said, had never seen two friends so entirely of one mind.1 The well-known anecdote best illustrates their intimate...at this proof of Becket's favor, to the shivering beggar.3 But it was in the graver affairs of the realm that Henry derived still greater advantage from... | |
 | Henry Hart Milman - Papacy - 1864 - 500 pages
...rode through the streets of London on a bleak winter day they met a beggar in rags. " Would it not he charity," said the king, " to give that fellow a cloak...secret envy of the courtiers at this proof of Becket's favour, to the shivering beggar. 1 1 But it was in the graver affairs of the realm that Henry derived... | |
 | John Charles Curtis - 1875 - 314 pages
...they rode through the streets of London side by side on a cold winter's day, they met a beggar all in rags. 'Would it not be charity,' said the king,...fellow a cloak and cover him from the cold?' Becket agreed; so the king, in jest, plucked from Becket's shoulders, in spite of his struggles, his rich... | |
 | Louise Creighton - Great Britain - 1876 - 96 pages
...they rode through the streets of London side by side on a cold winter's day, they met a beggar all in rags. ' Would it not be charity,' said the king,...fellow a cloak and cover him from the cold?' Becket agreed; so the king, in jest, plucked from Becket's shoulders, in spite of his struggles, his rich... | |
 | Mandell Creighton - Great Britain - 1886 - 744 pages
...they rode through the streets of London side by side on a cold winter's day, they met a beggar all in rags. ' Would it not be charity/ said the king,...fellow a cloak and cover him from the cold?' Becket agreed; so the king, in jest, plucked from Becket's shoulders, in spite of his struggles, his rich... | |
 | Louise Creighton - Feudal law - 1886 - 88 pages
...they rode through the streets of London side by side on a cold winter's day, they met a beggar all in rags. ' Would it not be charity,' said the king,...fellow a cloak and cover him from the cold?' Becket agreed; so the king, in jest, plucked from Becket's shoulders, in spite of his struggles, his rich... | |
 | Henry Hart Milman - Papacy - 1889 - 1098 pages
...best illustrates their intimate familiarity. -As they rode through the streets of London on a bl>?ak winter day they met a beggar in rags. " Would it not...at this proof of Becket's favor, to the shivering beggar.8 But it was in th« graver affairs of the realm that Henry derived still greater advantage... | |
 | Allen Clapp Thomas - Great Britain - 1913 - 676 pages
...they were riding together one cold winter's day when they met an ill-clad beggar. " Would it not be a charity," said the king, " to give that fellow a cloak and cover him from the cold ?" " Yes," said Becket. Whereupon the king snatched Becket's fine scarlet cloak edged with fur. Becket... | |
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