 | James Spedding - 1878 - 730 pages
...than (so far as we conceive) he ever deserved at your or anv man's hands ; for you say that you were afraid that the height of his fortune might make him too secure, and so as a looker-on you might sometime see more than a gamester. Now we know not how to interpret this... | |
 | James Spedding - 1880 - 734 pages
...Lordship's discretion. For I know him to be naturally a wise man, of a sound and staid wit, as I have ever said unto your Majesty, and again I know he hath...a looker-on sometimes seeth more than a gamester. 254 REPLY TO THE KING'S REBUKE. [BooK VI. For the particular of a part of a true friend which your... | |
 | Benjamin G. Lovejoy - 1883 - 304 pages
...insinuation against, Buckingham. He proclaims " a parentlike " affection for the favorite, and adds : — "I was afraid that the height of his fortune might...a looker-on sometimes seeth more than a gamester. . . . It is true that in those matters which, by Your Majesty's commandment and reference, came before... | |
 | Benjamin G. Lovejoy - 1888 - 306 pages
...insinuation against, Buckingham. He proclaims "a parentlike" affection for the favorite, and adds: — "I was afraid that the height of his fortune might...a looker-on sometimes seeth more than a gamester. . . . It is true that in those matters which, by Your Majesty's commandment and reference, came before... | |
 | John Lingard - 1902 - 584 pages
...naturally " a wise man, of a sound and staid wit ; and again I know he hath " the beat tutor in Europe. Yet I was afraid that the height of his " fortune...: and, as the proverb is, a " looker-on sometimes sees more than the gamester." — Bacon's Works, vi. 158. The king's answer may be seen, p. 162. Buckingham... | |
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I ever said unto your Majesty. And again, I know he hath the best tutor in Europe. But yet I was afraid that the height of his fortune might make him too secure, and, as the proverb is, a looker on seeth more than a gamester. 
