 | Jessie Childs - History - 2007 - 450 pages
...it was the King himself that dazzled. His auburn beard shone like gold while, on the tennis court, 'it is the prettiest thing in the world to see him...play, his fair skin glowing through a shirt of the finest texture'.4' By the mid-153os, though, some of Henry's lustre had faded. His left leg was afflicted... | |
 | John Sherren Brewer - Great Britain - 1884 - 646 pages
...diversion without tiring eight or ten horses, which he causes to be stationed beforehand along the line of country he means to take ; and when one is tired...play, his fair skin glowing through a shirt of the finest texture." l To the same purport is an earlier account written in 1515 by the Venetian Pasqualigo.... | |
 | Henry Allon - Christianity - 1855 - 810 pages
...eight or ten horses, which he causes to be stationed beforehand along the line of country he may mean to take, and when one is tired he mounts another,...play, his fair skin glowing through a shirt of the finest texture. He gambled with the French hostages to the amount occasionally, it was said, of from... | |
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He is very fond of hunting, and never takes his diversion without tiring eight or ten horses, which he causes to be stationed beforehand along the line of country he means to take, and when one is tired he mounts another, and before he gets home they... 
