Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER IV. Bat if in living colours and right hue Thyself thou covet to see pictured, Who can it do more lively or more true Than that sweet verse with nectar sprinkled ; In which a gracious servant pictured His Cynthia, his Heaven's fairest light? That with his melting sweetness ravished, And with the wonder of her beames bright, My senses lulled are in slumbers of delight. Spenser. I marie what pleasure or felicity they have in taking this roguish tobacco. Its good for nothing but to choke a man, and fill him full of smoke and embers; there were four died out of one house last week with taking of it, and two more the bell went for yesternight; one of them they say will never scape it, he voided a bushel of soot yesterday upward and downward. Ben Jonson. The queen of England having retired from the presence chamber, sat in her withdrawing room on a well carved chair, having cushions covered with crimson velvet, whereon the royal arms were embroidered in gold; resting her feet upon a footstool of a like material —and around her were the select companions of her privacy. I nstead of her crown, she now wore a piramidal head dress built of wire, lace, ribands, and jewels. The chamber was of handsome proportions, hung with costly tapestry, on which was very fairly depicted the principal events in the Iliad, and besides such necessary furniture, as chairs, tables, and cabinets elaborately chiselled into every kind of cunning device, the panels of the richly decorated wainscot did contain full length portraits of the late king's highness of glorious memory, Henry the Eighth, with his illustrious consort Anna Ikileyn, in dark ebony frames, and done to the life with all the limner's skill. The whole party seemed to be in an excellent good humour, especial...