 | Albert Forbes Sieveking - English drama - 1904 - 108 pages
...also did the Sword of Sigard." Burton, Book of the Sword, p. 95. Bill's a Tall-fellow ons bands (200). "As he lived in a ruffling time, so he loved sword and buckler men, and such as our Fathers were wont to call men of their hands." Sir Robert Naunton, Fragmenta Regalia. (Lord Hunsdon)... | |
 | George Edward Cokayne - Nobility - 1926 - 746 pages
...to his Prince, and firm to his friends and servants, downright honest and stout hearted. . . . His custom of swearing and obscenity in speaking made...a better knight of the carpet than he should be." " Truly my Lord Hunsdon was ever reputed a very honest man, but a very passionate man, a great swearer... | |
 | Fairfax Harrison - Devon (England) - 1920 - 476 pages
...interest in him, say merrily of him that his Latin and his dissimulation were both alike : and that his custom of swearing and obscenity in speaking made him seem a worse Christian than he was, and no better Knight of the Carpet than he should be. As he lived in a ruffling time, so he loved sword... | |
 | Peter Thomson - Drama - 1999 - 244 pages
...him, say merrily of him, that his Latine and his dissimulation were both alike: and that his custome of swearing, and obscenity in speaking, made him seem...so he loved sword and buckler men, and such as our Fathers were wont to call men of their hands; of which sort, he had many brave Gentlemen that followed... | |
 | A. L. Rowse - England - 2003 - 480 pages
...with her cousin. Cf. Sir Robert Naunton, Fragmenta Regalia (Arber's English Reprints), 47 : "... his custom of swearing and obscenity in speaking made him seem a worse Christian than he was ". Where did they get their bad language from ? Not from Henry VIII, who was rather particular in such... | |
 | Charles Edelman - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 452 pages
...Chamberlain was patron of Shakespeare's company, had a real affection for them: 'as he lived in a roughling time, so he loved sword and buckler men, and such as our fathers were wont to call men of their hands, of which sort he had many brave gentlemen that followed... | |
 | Books - 1822 - 390 pages
...and had interest in him, say merely of him, that his Latin and dissimulation were alike, and that his custom of swearing and obscenity in speaking, made...of the carpet than he should be : as he lived in a roughling time, so he loved sword and buckler men, and such as our fathers were wont to call men of... | |
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As he lived in a ruffling time, so he loved sword and buckler men, and such as our fathers were wont to call men of their hands, of which sort he had many brave gentlemen that followed him, yet not taken for a popular and dangerous person. 
