Excerpts from the Book 'The Fifth Queen':

... gardens, with the hedges dry, the orchard trees bare with frost, the arbours wintry and deserted. This congregation of small cottages was like a patch ...
... I to have news of her??? . But he was a braggart I liked him not, and would not stay to speak with him.' 'I'll warrant you had dealings with some wench ...
... lawns of the park round the palace Lutherans waited all night to welcome their Queen. They lit small fires on the turf and, standing round them, sang ...
... he said. 'She is sore hurt. I would not leave her like a dog,' and he asked the King's pardon. 'Why, God forbid,' the King said. 'Your Grace shall ...
... Cromwell stayed, listening attentively another stood forward to blow four blasts, another six, another three. Each time the whistle answered. ...
... head and laughed discordantly, like a magpie. She came with a deft and hopping step and gazed at Katharine with her head on one side. 'Old Crummock ...
... her tall-backed chair and suddenly tossed the piece of bark into the fire. 'I would have you walk across the floor, elevating your arms as you were the ...
... there, for there were laws against it. If men came brawling in the maids' quarters at nights there were penalties of losing fingers, hands, or even ...
... calm,' Katharine answered 'thou seest me now.' He passed his hand over his eyes. 'I'll be calm to pleasure thee,' he muttered apologetically. 'You ...
... brewer's son be brought down?' Katharine pleaded. 'Why, I tore his letter across for it is filthy,' Mary said, 'and I keep the halves of his letter ...
... least, they did not mean to do away with her instantly. She dropped her eyes upon the ground and stood submissively whilst Privy Seal's voice came cruel ...
... roared that these reverend men should kneel to him he held out a cloven foot and bade them kiss it. But a venerable bishop cried out, 'You be Antichrist. ...
... waiting for him in every town in Italy on the road to Rome. Some are at Brescia, some at Rimini: at Padua there is a man with his neck, like yours, ...
... or the mares ran with their foals. That morning there was a glint of sun in the opalescent clouds: horse-boys in grey with double roses worked on their ...
... cry: For pity, for pity, come to the point. I have pity. So you cry, having obtained your desire, Get ye gone, and let me pray!' She said wearily: 'I ...
... or the Bishop of Rome. So that??? .' He paused, and concluded: 'This Lord Cromwell moves in the shadow of a little thing that casts hardly any shadow. ...
... me as I had been a thrashing floor.' They missed the Doctor's voice???but the King's came again. 'Why, this is a folly. I am Supreme Head, but I bid ...
... the truth.' A black malignancy settled upon the face of the princess. 'I have been called bastard,' she said. 'My mother was done to death.' 'No true ...
... like a veil, it covered her face. 'Let me not be seen!' she uttered hoarsely. The old knight's impatient desires burst through his terror. 'Nick Throckmorton,' ...
... forehead. 'I do a task ever in mine own way,' he began again. 'Here am I. Here is Privy Seal. Your Highness is minded to know what passes in the mind ...