Some haue written, that as he assaied to haue escaped out of prison, and proouing to clime ouer the wals of the castell, he fell into the riuer of Saine, and so was drowned.
So that of the citizens some were taken, some killed, and the wals of the citie beaten flat to the ground.
And so they laie betweene the wals of the citie and the trenches of the enimies, still crieng for helpe and releefe, for lacke whereof great numbers of them dailie died.
The Frenchmen notwithstanding this siege, valiantlie defended their wals, and sometimes made issues foorth, but small to their gaine: and still the Englishmen with their guns and great ordinance made batterie to the wals and bulworks.
And soth to faine my chambre was Ful wel depainted---- And all the wals with colours fine Were painted bothe texte and glose, And all the Romaunt of the Rose.
And further, that the said duke ment to haue broken into the manor of Eltham the last Christmasse, by scaling the wals in the night season, the king being there the same time, to the intent to haue murthered him.
There is betwixt the wals of their cities and the mote of the same a broade space, that six horsemen may ride together; the like space is within, betwixt the walles and the houses, whereas they may walke without impediment.
Their wals are kept in such good reparation, by reason of their great care and diligence, that they seeme to be but new made, and yet in some cities there is founde mention of two thousand yeeres since the first foundation.
This citie is founded vpon the Red Sea banke, enuironed with wals and towers to the land-ward, but through continuance of time almost consumed and wasted: on the side to seaward it stands vnwalled.
All the wals vpon the inner side were seeled ouer with plates of beaten gold, whereupon were engrauen the pictures of knights, hauing about their temples, ech of them a wreath of golde, adorned with precious stones.
There is also the piscina or fishpoole where the sicke folkes were healed, which is by the wals of Ierusalem.
I beat my head against the wals and cald them bauds, because they wold see such a wrong committed, and not fall vpon him.
The wals round about were hedgde with Oliues and palme trees, and all other odoriferous fruit-bearing plants, which at anie solemne intertainment dropt mirrhe and frankensence.
The wals were hoard and furd with the moist scorching steam of their desolation.
Also, to note the force of the wals and bulwarks of their cities, their ordonance, and whether they haue any caliuers, and what powder and shot.
From the Castle Derbent Eastwards, there reach two stone wals to the border of the Caspian sea, which is distant one English mile.
No stone work is in vse, their roofes of rafters bee, One linked in another fast, their wals are all of tree.
They shewed me the church, wherein were as many images as could hang about, or vpon the wals of the Church round about, and euen the roofe of the church was painted ful of images.
This yeare, when it might haue beene thought that all things were forgotten touching the rebellious attempts made against king Henrie the father by his sons, [Sidenote: The wals of the towne and castell of Leicester raced.
In the Treasvrie of Avncient and Moderne Times, it is stated that "Spiders do shun all such wals as run to ruine, or are like to be ouerthrowne.
What full enioying blisse divine, What iewels on thy wals do shine!
Manie great assalts he caused to be giuen vnto the citie, but the Londoners and others within so valiantlie defended the wals and gates, that the enimies got small aduantage, and at length were constreined to depart with losse.
These heapes of stones, these old wals which ye see, Were first enclosures but of salvage soyle; And these brave pallaces, which maystred bee Of time, were shepheards cottages somewhile.
No remedie my Lord, when Wals are so wilfull, to heare without warning Dut.
The wals of the yard may almost passe for a miracle because of their curious workmanship and extent.
Saw African Marigolds, the true Aloes trie; all the wals cloathed with wery big clusters; tall cypruses, Indian figs, etc.
The wals are built of brick, which conduces much to the ripening of the fruits: their be 20 ackers of land within the yeardes.
Certainly it was the greatest Architecture of one day, since that great one of six; an Art quite lost with our Mechanicks, a work not to be made out, but like the wals of Thebes, and such an Artificer as Amphion.
Great inundations and flouds of water followed shortlie after in October, which did much hurt at Burie, and Newmarket in Suffolke, where it ouerthrew wals of houses, and put men and women in great danger of drowning.
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