 | Mary Balmanno - 1858 - 348 lehte
...by the same sun that drew me up to such a height. "While /our majesty gives me leave to say I love you, my fortune is, as my affection — unmatchable....are, to make me love you less. Therefore, for the honour of your sex, show yourself constant in kindness, for all your other virtues are confessed to... | |
 | 1873 - 302 lehte
...vapour by the same sun that drew me up to such a height. While your majesty gives me leave to say I love you, my fortune is, as my affection — unmatchable. If ever you deny me that liberty, yon may end my life, but never shake my constancy ; for were the sweetness of your nature turned into... | |
 | Andrew Hadfield - 2001 - 302 lehte
...with the fervour of eros. 'While your majesty gives me leave to say I love you', wrote Essex in 1591, my fortune is as my affection, unmatchable. If ever...power, as great a Queen as you are, to make me love you less.14 When Sir Walter Raleigh, another of Elizabeth's favourites, was imprisoned in the tower for... | |
 | Michael Salewski - 2003 - 672 lehte
...bediente sich Essex der höfischen Liebessprache: „While your Majesty gives me leave to say I love you, my fortune is as my affection, unmatchable. If...that liberty, you may end my life, but never shake my 21 Wilhclmine von Bayreuth. Eine preußische Königstochter. Glanz und Elend am Hofe des Soldatcnkönigs... | |
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I will not fall like a star, but be consumed like a vapour by the sun that drew me up to such a height. While your Majesty gives me leave to say I love you, my fortune is as my affection, unmatchable. If ever you deny me that liberty, you may end my life,... 