This prince, although euill reported of by writers for the couetous tasking of his subiects, and reteining of ecclesiasticall liuings in his hands; yet was he endued with manie noble and princelie qualities.
Philip feasted him also in his owne palace, & for his part gaue to him, to his lords, and to his seruants manie great and princelie gifts.
Moreouer, the pride and pretended authoritie of the cleargie he could not well abide, when they went about to wrest out of his hands the prerogatiue of his princelie rule and gouernement.
Certeinelie it should seeme the man had a princelie heart in him, and wanted nothing but faithfull subiects to haue assisted him in reuenging such wrongs as were doone and offered by the French king and others.
The Parisiens that beheld his princelie port & high magnificence, iudged him rather an emperour then a king, and their owne king to be in respect of him like a duke or marquesse.
Matthew, being the twentie fourth of Februarie, with all such ceremonies and princelie solemnitie as appertained.
But this king euen at first appointing with himselfe, to shew that in his person princelie honors should change publike manners, he determined to put on him the shape of a new man.
When he had thus answered the herald, he gaue him a princelie reward, and licence to depart.
When the king was descended from his horsse, he and the archduke imbraced each other with most princelie familiaritie, and then the queene and all the nobles saluted him.
When all pacts and couenants betweene the kings of England and Castile were appointed, concluded, and agreed; king Philip tooke his leaue of king Henrie, yeelding to him most heartie thanks for his high cheere and princelie interteinement.
And besides that, he kept such a princelie countenance, and so counterfeit a maiestie roiall, that all men in manner did firmelie beleeue, that he was extracted of the noble house and familie of the dukes of Yorke.
The king highlie feasted them, and rewarded them princelie at their departing.
Yet, notwithstanding this, I hope fresh starres will governe in the spring; And then, assure your princelie friend your maister, Our promise in all honour shall be kept.
O my sweete love, O princelie Alberdure, Would God the river where thy course lay drownde Were double deepe in me and turned to teares That it might be consumde for swallowing thee.
To that end go, my honourable Lord, Commend me and my sister to his love (If you perceive not he neglects our owne) And bring his princelie resolution.
Sister, you see we utterly mistake The kinde andprincelie dealing of the Duke: Therefore without more ceremonious doubts Lets reconfirme the contract and his love.
Require no more if thou be princelie borne And not of rocks or ruthelesse tygers bred.
As touching other the roiall seruices and princelie appointments, they are verie diligentlie & at large set out in the French chronicle of that time.
What pleasure or what felicitie could he take in hisprincelie pompe, which he knew by manifest and fearfull experience, to be enuied and maligned to the verie death?
The king perceiuing himselfe thus besieged of his enimies, at the first caused the doores to be shut, supposing either by curteous woords to appease his enimies, or with his princelie authoritie to put them in feare.
Scots, which as then had rebelled; but by the princelie power of Cnute they were subdued and brought againe to obedience: so that not onelie king Malcolme, but also two other kings Melbeath and Ieohmare became his subiects.
Beleeue it not: Too high a heart she beares, Too Princelie thoughts.
This being ended, he suffered the ambassadors honored with great gifts and princelie rewards to depart.
Soone after, both the brethren approching neere togither, ech of them pitched their campe within the sight of other, preparing themselues to giue battell with princelie stomachs.
My father in doing it, thinketh it not more than becommeth him, he being borne of princelie bloud onlie on the mothers side, serueth me that am a king borne hauing both a king to my father, and a queene to my mother.
They were honorablie enterteined, and at their departure princelie rewarded.
Howbeit the king got of the Londoners by way of princelie praier twentie thousand marks of gold at that time.
But the lord protector he said, the verie noble prince, the speciall paterne of knightlie prowesse, as well in all princelie behauior, as in the lineaments and fauour of his visage, represented the verie face of the noble duke his father.
The princelie stagge at lengthe his rave doth ronne.
In 1513, "The king kept a solemne Christmasse at Greenwich, with danses and mummeries in most princelie manner.
Doe right vnto this princelie Duke of Yorke, ·eaa160· Or I will fill the house with armed men, Enter Souldiers.
Clarence and Gloster, loue my louelie Queene, [eaw026] And kisse your princelie nephew brothers both.
Reuerse that doome of mercie, for tis Clifford, Who kild our tender brother Rutland, And stabd our princelie father Duke of Yorke.
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