Memoirs of Henry the Eighth of England, With the Fortunes, Fates, And Characters of His Six Wives
Memoirs of Henry the Eighth of England, With the Fortunes, Fates, And Characters of His Six Wives
Herbert, Henry William, 1807-1858
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837 on the reality of her beauty, of which, by the way, the eooeiip txic lord waa a competent judge. " As for the beauty," aays he, " and handsomeness of Anne Bullen, which the same ax^ thor," it is E4istal5 of whom he speaks, "doth traduce, beside that it contradicts common sense, she having been, by their al- legatioDj the minion to two king% even that picture of hers, extant still with the Duche^ of Richmond, doth sufficiently convince," Shortly after Anne's retura to court, it is (Certain t...hat the king began to make amorous assaults and lay violent siege to Anne's virtue j and it is no less certain, that for a time she re- sisted his addresses, with a constancy and steadiness of virtue^ which no one has the right to attribute, as I oertainly have Got th« d osire to do so, to anything but unfeigned modesty* After a fix-st repulse and rebuke, Henry declared, it seems, that he should persist to hope, and her reply has been preserved — " I under- stand not, most mighty king, how you should retain such hopej your wife I cannot be, both in respect of mine own unworthi- ness, and, also, because you have a queen already.
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