King Henry VIII was to be his subject on numerous occasions as were other members of the Royal Family, courtiers and prospective wives including, famously, a portrait of Anne of Cleves which may have oversold her beauty to the king who was unimpressed with her in person (there is apparently ...
' (IV.viii. 105-6). Indeed, Shakespeare presents the English achievement at Agincourt as little short of miraculous. Chronicles and play agree that this was the great military achievement of medieval England, but the chronicles, unlike the play, emphasize that success was in part ...
When, after 150 days, “the fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained” (Gen. viii.2), what prevented the mass of water, several, possibly very many, fathoms deep, which covered, say, the present site of Bagdad, from ...