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Knox did draw up articles intended to minimise the mischief of these bastard and simoniacal bishoprics and abused patronages (August 1572).

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A. D. 1170, and a Bastard having carried it from his lawful Sons, one of the latter, called, Madog, put to Sea for new Discoveries, and sailing West from Spain, he discovered a New World of wonderful Beauty and Fertility.

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This Son, being upbraided with his illegitimate Birth, by one of his Companions, slew him, and fled to Scotland, where in time he became Lord Steward of that Kingdom; and all the Families of that name in that Country, are descended from that Bastard.

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So when the time of the third payment of the tribute arrived, and those fathers who had sons not yet grown up had to submit to draw lots, the unhappy people began to revile Aegeus, complaining that he, although the author of this calamity, yet took no share in their affliction, but endured to see them left childless, robbed of their own legitimate offspring, while he made a foreigner and a bastard the heir to his kingdom.

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Others reject this verse, and the legend about Mounychus, who is said to have been the bastard son of Laodike, by Demophoon, and to have been brought up in Troy by Aithra.

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If it finds nothing to love at home, it will find something abroad; and when affection, like a desert spot, has no legitimate possessors, it is usurped by bastard children or even servants, who when they have obtained our love, make us fear for them and be anxious about them.

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He is thought to have had a bastard son by her, who is mentioned by Eupolis in his play of 'The Townships,' where Perikles is introduced, asking, "Lives then my son?" to which Myronides answers: "He lives, and long had claimed a manly name, But that he feared his harlot mother's shame."

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But innovation has crept in, and the city khan is now a kind of bastard hotel, with a rude host, who makes you pay for your own lodging and the provender of your animal; and as part and parcel of the establishment you also find a coffee-shop, coffee being the primal necessity of Oriental well--being, taking precedence even of tobacco, which, however, always accompanies it.

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The queen of Sheba, who was playing at backgammon with the high-priest, and who came every October to converse with Solomon, though she did not understand a word of Hebrew, hearing the noise, came running out of her dressing-room; and seeing the king with a squalling child in his arms, asked him peevishly, if it became his reputed wisdom to expose himself with his bastards to all the court?

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"Do you talk to me, you bastard?" he roared out.

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But after the death of Agis, Lysander, the conqueror of Athens, who was the most important man in Sparta, began to urge the claims of Agesilaus to the throne, on the ground that Leotychides was a bastard, and therefore excluded from the succession.

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These are as follows:--First, Pompeius obtained his power and renown by the most strictly legitimate means, chiefly by his own exertions when assisting Sulla in the liberation of Italy; while Agesilaus obtained the throne in defiance of both human and divine laws, for he declared Leotychides to be a bastard, although his brother had publicly recognised him as his own son, and he also by a quibble evaded the oracle about a lame reign.

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Even if Leotychides had been proved a thousand times to be a bastard, the family of Eurypon could have supplied Sparta with a legitimate and sound king, had not Lysander, for the sake of Agesilaus, deceived them as to the true meaning of the oracle.

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Enraged at these words, Alexander exclaimed, "You villain, am I then a bastard?" and threw a drinking cup at him.

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No Gothic scourge of God, no Vandal pest of nations, no fabled fugitive from the flames of Troy, no bastard Norman tyrant, appears among the list of worthies who first landed on the rock, which your veneration has preserved as a lasting monument of their achievement.

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The Artauds, those bastards who sprang up out of the rocky soil with the persistence of brambles, were now in their turn blowing a blast that reeked of teeming life.

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"She looks higher than a bastard, even Le Balafré's own."

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I am your bastard nephew, living on your favour.

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At the head of the table will be found, in _A' Court Style_, a _Blunt, Harty, King_, dressed in _Green_ and _Scarlett_, seated on a _Lion_--supported on the right by three _Thynne Fellows_ and two _Bastard Knights, Baring_ a _Shiel_; and on the left by a _Sadler_, seven _Smiths_, and the _Taylor_ "wot" _Mangles_ with his _Bodkin_.

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If, instead of the bread from heaven, you feed their souls with the husks of life, and lead them on by the opiates of bastard joys; if, "when they ask of you bread, you give them a stone, or for a fish, you give them a serpent," will it not be "more tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment than for you?"

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The evils of this may be seen in the first classes of English society, where rank is mechanical, and where law forbids a trespass upon its bastard prerogatives; and as a consequence, relatives intermarry, until their descendants have degenerated into complete physical and mental imbecility.

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It is for the poet, however, not for the politician, that Mr. Sharp reserves his loftiest panegyric and, in his anxiety to smuggle the author of Leszko the Bastard and Grandmother's Teaching into the charmed circle of the Immortals, he leaves no adjective unturned, quoting and misquoting Mr. Austin with a recklessness that is absolutely fatal to the cause he pleads.

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A considerable English contingent came also, headed by Otto's bastard uncle, William Longsword, Earl of Salisbury.

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The blood-feud was abolished; widows obtained a dower; bastards were no longer to inherit; and in default of heirs male in the direct line, daughters were allowed to inherit.

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Then he got up, and shrieked out something--it was something against myself; he called me a bastard, that's the fact.

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Nevertheless, if the Gonzaga did not here show himself a great general, he did great feats of personal valor, penetrating to the midst of the French forces, wounding the king, and with his own hand taking prisoner the great Bastard of Bourbon.

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But a natural son had already been born to him by Madame Jouberthon; and his marriage now promised to make this bastard the heir to the future French imperial throne.

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"We can only hope for better times, and a more humane Government for the natives, to wipe out the wrong that has been done to both black and white under a bastard civilization which has prevailed in Pretoria for the past fifteen years.

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But a natural son had already been born to him by Madame Jouberthon; and his marriage now promised to make this bastard the heir to the future French imperial throne.

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What does her past and the mystery of her origin matter to me; what does it matter whether she is the true descendant of the god of the sea and the sublime Lagides or the bastard of a Polish drunkard and a harlot of the Marbeuf quarter?

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But the "mansion" of bastard architecture and crude paint, with its brass indifferently clean, with coarse lace behind the plate glass of its golden-oak door, and the bell answered at eleven in the morning by a butler in an ill fitting dress suit and wearing a mustache, might as well be placarded: "Here lives a vulgarian who has never had an opportunity to acquire cultivation."

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In this way the Raskolniks have created a fantastic history which has been handed down to our own days, according to one version of which, as has been said, Peter the Great is the impious bastard of the patriarch Nikon (and from such a parentage only a devil's offspring could be looked for); while another asserts that Peter Alexovitch was a pious prince, like his forefathers, but that he had perished at sea, and in his stead had been substituted a Jew of the race of Danof, or Satan.

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Run the bastard!" shouted Scott Parsons.

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"What do you mean, you bastard cleric, you!"

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"Don't drag a woman into this, you bastard American, you!

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Nelson repeated Douglas' query to his wife, adding, "He's the young man who brought the preacher into Lost Chief and who called me a bastard American."

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And therefore when an Impostor, a Bastard Moor by Nation born in that Land; came and publickly set up a new nameless God, as he styled him; and that he was sent to destroy the Temples of their Gods, the King opposed it not for a good while, as waiting to see which of these Gods would prevail, until he saw that he aimed to make himself King, then he allowed of him no longer: as I shall shew more at large hereafter: when I come to speak of the Religion of the Countrey.

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Not beggar's brat on bulk begot; Not bastard of a pedler Scot; Not boy brought up to cleaning shoes, The spawn of Bridewell[2] or the stews; Not infants dropp'd, the spurious pledges Of gipsies litter'd under hedges; Are so disqualified by fate To rise in church, or law, or state, As he whom Phoebus in his ire Has blasted with poetic fire.

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The hawker shows you one in print, As fresh as farthings from the mint: The product of your toil and sweating; A bastard of your own begetting.

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Bastards are mostly cunning, and servants mostly handsome.

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As he had adhered to the Parliamentarians and made the stars speak for their cause, he had hitherto been pretty safe; but the leading Presbyterian and Independent ministers, as we have seen (ante IV, p. 392), had recently called upon Parliament to put down his bastard science.

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That morning his distemper had developed itself distinctly into "an ague"; which ague proved, within the next few days, to be of the kind called by the physicians "a bastard tertian," i.e.

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He demanded brusquely, "What are you _oui-oui_-ing for?" and occasionally interjected a few words of bastard French in an attempt to be jovial.

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I have known a Hawaiian nobleman who, commenting on this fact, said that the system had merit in that no child could be called a bastard, and that the woman, who suffered most, was rewarded by pride of posterity.

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Mango and limes, breadfruit and cocoanut, _pomme de Cythère_, orange and papaws, banana and alligator-pear, candlenut and chestnut, mulberry and sandalwood, _tou_, the bastard ebony, and rosewood, the rose-apple with purple tasseled flowers and delicious fruit, the pistachio and the _badamier_, scores of shrubs and bushes and magnificent tree-ferns, all on a tangled sward of white spider-lilies, great, sweet-smelling plants, an acre of them, and with them other ferns of many kinds, and mosses, the nodding _taro_ leaves and the _ti_, the leaves which the Fatu-hivans make into girdles and wreaths; all grew luxuriantly, friendly neighbors to the Swiss, set there by him or volunteering for service in the generous way of the tropics.

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Either the public taste has erred, or the bastard Italian was superior to the genuine English.

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But the caitiff laughed a laugh of scorn: "Come on, thou bastard of bastards born."

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What, mine own friend Will, that had his bastard fathered on me?

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At the same time, bastard as the heroic romance was, it could not but exercise an important influence on the future of fiction, inasmuch as it combined, or attempted to combine, with classical unity and mediæval variety the more modern interest of manners and (sometimes) personality.

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But the new romance was of rather a bastard kind, and it showed more of the bad blood than of the good till, by a curious coincidence, Scott once more found the true strain, just about the same time as that at which Miss Austen was making known the true strain of the novel proper.

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The language was the bastard jargon of the French half-breed.

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The French half-breed predominated, and these spoke their bastard lingo with that rapidity and bristling elevation of tone which characterizes their Gallic relatives.

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And this is how you've robbed me, you--you bastard!"

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On, you bastard.

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Will he hide aught or soften any word, Rating the bastard of his spear-won thrall, Whose cowardice and dastardy betrayed Thy life, dear Aias,--or my murderous guile, To rob thee of thy lordship and thy home?

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For his obedient knights did not refuse to open their ranks to these great bastards of Burgundy, who carried a bar sinister proudly on their escutcheon.

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Among his pupils were also Anthony, Bastard of Burgundy,[24] son of Philip, and the Marquis Hugues de Rottelin.

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Among those slain in the course of the war, were Cornelius, Bastard of Burgundy, and the gallant Jacques de Lalaing.

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Toison d'Or was followed by two maidens, Mademoiselle Yolande, bastard daughter of the duke, and Isabelle of Neufchâtel, escorted by two gentlemen of the Order.

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Among the knights was Charles and one of his half-brothers; among the ladies was Margaret, Bastard of Burgundy, and the others were all of high birth.

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"As for this bastard," Philip added, turning to the other son, destitute of status in the eyes of the law, "if I find that he counsels you to oppose my will, I will have him tied up in a sack and thrown into the sea.

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Morvilliers used very bitter terms in his assertion that Charles had illegally stopped a little French ship of war and arrested a certain bastard of Rubempré on the false charge that his errand in Holland, where the incident occurred, was to seize and carry off Charles himself.

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As to the bastard of Rubempré, true it was that he had been apprehended in Holland,[5] but there was adequate ground for his arrest as his behaviour had been strange, at least so thought the Count of Charolais.

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But notwithstanding" [quoth he] "that myself never were supicious, yet if I had been in my son's place at the same time that this bastard of Rubempré haunted those coasts I would surely have caused him to be apprehended as my son did."

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La Marche is less detailed in his record[6] of the Rubempré incident: "The bastard was put in prison and the Count of Charolais sent me to Hesdin to the duke to inform him of the arrest and its cause.

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Demands were made that I should be delivered to him to be punished as he would, because he claimed that I had been the cause of the arrest of the bastard of Rubempré and also of the duke's departure from Hesdin without saying adieu to the King of France, but the good duke, moderate in all his actions, replied that I was his subject and his servitor, and that if the king or any one else had a grievance against me he would investigate it.

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Recognised by the French, he might have been taken or slain in his resistance, when the Bastard of Burgundy rode in and rescued him.

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It was late in the evening when the Bastard of Burgundy marched in.

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At the time of the duke's death, Olivier de La Marche was in England, whither he had accompanied the Bastard of Burgundy on a mission to King Edward.

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The Bastard of Burgundy, wearing the Burgundian coat-of-arms with a bar sinister, made a fine record for himself.

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You may believe how great was the bastard's mourning when he heard of his father's death, and how the nobility who were with him mourned too.

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The Bastard of Burgundy took leave of the English court and hastened to Bruges to join his brother, the Count of Charolais, who received him warmly.

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It was on this business that La Marche and the great Bastard were engaged when Philip's death interrupted the discussion, which Charles did not immediately resume on his own behalf.

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And the same Sonday my Lord the Bastard took upon hym to answere xxiiij knyts & gentylmen within viij dayis at jostys of pese & when that they wer answered, they xxiiij & hymselve shold torney with other xxv the next day after, whyche is on Monday next comyng; & they that have jostyd with hym into thys day have been as rychly beseyn, & hymselfe also, as clothe of gold & sylk & sylvyr & goldsmith's werk might mak hem; for of syche ger & gold & perle & stonys they of the dukys coort neyther gentylmen nor gentylwomen they want non; for with owt that they have it by wyshys, by my trowthe, I herd nevyr of so gret plente as ther is.

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Sorry return was this from one recognised as Bastard of Burgundy and brought up in the ducal household.

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Jehan de Chassa promptly issued a rejoinder: "As Charles, soi-disant Duke of Burgundy, has sent to divers places letters signed by himself and his secretary, Jehan le Gros, written at Hesdin, December 13th, falsely charging me with plotting against his life with Baldwin, Bastard of Burgundy, and Jehan d'Arson, I, considering that it is matter touching my honour, feel bound to reply.... By God and by my soul I declare that these charges against me made by Charles of Burgundy are false and disloyal lies"[26] Baldwin, too, expressed righteous indignation at the slur on his character, but he remained in the French court as did many others who had formerly served Charles.

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There was reproach for Anthony the Bastard for taking a gift of 20,000 crowns from Louis XI.

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Broeck, M. van der Bruchsal Bruges _Brunette_ Brussels Bureau, Jehan Buren, castle of Burgundy, duchy of; Estates of Burgundy, Franche-Comté of Burgundy, Anthony, Grand Bastard of Burgundy, Baldwin, Bastard of Burgundy, Charles the Bold, (Count of Charolais), Duke of; birth of; elected knight of the Golden Fleece; description of; ancestry of; imperial ambitions of; education of; weds Catherine of France; takes official part in public affairs; character of; first campaign of; entrusted with regency of Holland; English sympathies of; weds Isabella of Bourbon; judicial methods of; rejoices over birth of daughter; strained relations with his father; enmity between Louis and ; at coronation of Louis XI; fears plots against his life; joins League of Public Weal; allies of; letters of, to cities; to Louis; to Duchess Isabella; to French council; to Duke of Brittany; to Sigismund; to Edward IV.

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; to Duke of Milan; at battle of Montl'héry; armies of; dictates terms of treaty of Conflans; marches against Liege; destroys Dinant; underestimates character and strength of enemies; accedes to the dukedom; invested with titles; unpopularity of; punishes Ghent; reforms of; weds Margaret of York; ducal state of; demands _aides_; receives Louis at Peronne; crushes revolt of Liege; makes treaty of Peronne; proposed sons-in-law for; signs treaty of St. Omer; takes lands from Sigismund; relations of, with Swiss; invested with Order of the Garter; _Remonstrance_ presented to; embassies to; truces of, with Louis XI; besieges Beauvais; reverses of; acquires duchy of Guelders; negotiations between Emperor Frederic and; interview of, with emperor at Trèves; becomes "protector" of Lorraine; interferes in Cologne affairs; visits Alsace; troubles with Alsace; besieges Neuss; war declared against; makes truce with Frederic; defeated at Héricourt; besieges Nancy; allies desert; defeated at Granson; at Morat; convenes states-general; last battle of; death and burial of Burgundy, Cornelius, Bastard of Burgundy, David of, Bishop of Utrecht Burgundy, Isabella of Portugal, Duchess of; ancestry of; English sympathies of; retires to convent; burial of Burgundy, John the Fearless, Duke of; death of Burgundy, Margaret, Bastard of Burgundy, Margaret of York, Duchess of Burgundy, Mary of (Duchess of Austria; godfather of; proposed marriages for Burgundy, Philip the Good, Duke of, marriages of; institutes Order of Golden Fleece; children of; alliance of; signs treaty of Arras; territories acquired by; suppresses revolt in Bruges; wealth and magnificence of; crushes rebellion of Ghent; gives Feast of the Pheasant; plans crusade; chooses second wife for Charles; character of; interferes in affairs of Utrecht, of Liege, and of Cologne; hospitality of, to dauphin; influenced by the Croys; attends coronation of Louis XI; illnesses of; witnesses punishment of Dinant; death and burial of; epitaph of; description of; popularity of Burgundy, Philip the Hardy, Duke of Burgundy, Yolande, Bastard of C Cagnola Calabria, Duke of, _see_ Lorraine Calais Calixtus III.

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Petitpas Petrasanta, Franciscus, Milanese ambassador Pheasant, Feast of the Picardy Picquigny Plessis-les-Tours Pleume Podiebrad, George, ex-king of Bohemia Poictiers, Alienor de Poinsot, Jean Poitiers Poland Pont-à-Mousson Pont de Cé Porcupine, Order of the Portinari, Thomas Portugal Portugal, Alphonse V., King of Portugal, Isabella of, Duchess of Burgundy, _see_ Burgundy Pot, Philip de Poucque, castle of Prussia Public Weal, War of, _see_ League Q Quaux River, the Quercy Quiévrain, Seigneur de Quingey, Simon de R Rampart, Jean Ratellois Ratisbon Ravestein, Madame de Ravestein, Monseigneur de Renty, Monseigneur de Rethel Rheims Rheims, Archbishop of Rheinfelden Rhine, the; Valley Rhinelands, the Rhodes Rivers, Earl Roche, Henri de la Rochefort Rochefort, Sire of Rochefoucauld Roelants, Gort Romans, King of the Rome Romont, Count of Romorantin Roses, Wars of the Rossillon Rottelin, Marquise Hugues de Rotterdam Rouen Rousillon Rouvre Roye Rozière, Malhortie de Rubempré, the bastard of Rubempré, Jehan de Ruple, G. Russia S Saeckingen St. Bavon, Abbot of Ste.

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[102] "PROTUS" is a fragment of an imaginary chronicle: recording in the same page and under the head of the same year, how the child-Emperor, Protus, descended from a god, was growing in beauty and in grace, worshipped by the four quarters of the known world; and how John, the Pannonian blacksmith's bastard, came and took the Empire; but, as "some think," let Protus live--to be heard of later as dependent in a foreign court; or perhaps to become the monk, whom rumour speaks of as bearing his name, and who died at an advanced age in Thrace.

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6 An excellent and very discreet person, very near ally'd both to you and mee, was relating to mee, that some time since, whilst she was talking with some other Ladies, upon a sudden, all the objects, she looked upon, appeared to her dyed with unusual Colours, some of one kind, and some of another, but all so bright and vivid, that she should have been as much delighted, as surpriz'd with them, but that finding the apparition to continue, she fear'd it portended some very great alteration as to her health: As indeed the day after she was assaulted with such violence by Hysterical and Hypocondrical Distempers, as both made her rave for some daies, and gave her, during that time, a Bastard Palsey.

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Lowendal sprang from the royal house of Denmark; and Saxe, the best of all, was one of the three hundred and fifty-four bastards of Augustus the Strong, Elector of Saxony and King of Poland.

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Antinous: Had I Been slothful, and not follow'd you in all The streights of death, you might have justly then Reputed me a Bastard: 'tis a cruelty More than to murther Innocents, to take The life of my yet infant-honour from me.

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Cassilanes: The viper's come; his fears have drawn him hither, And now, my Lords, be Ch[ro]nicled for ever, And give me justice against this vile Monster, This bastard of my bloud.

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To be generous, indeed, sometimes, in giving a portion with the mother of a bastard child to the reputed father, on condition that he will marry her, or with a poor widow, _always provided that the husband_ be settled elsewhere; or if a poor man with a large family happen to be industrious, they will charitably assist him in taking a farm in some neighbouring parish, and give him 10 l. to pay his first year's rent with, that they may thus for ever get rid of him and his progeny.'

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The English girl, with her beauty, her civilisation, her rank and place, made her appeal to her fiancé; and the Spanish bastard dancer, with her daring, her passion, her naked humanity, so coarse and so intensely human, made her appeal also.

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She saw no crucifix to sustain her, but she did see the bastard Spanish dancing-girl.

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bastard?"

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At length a letter came, and Maggie Jones trembled so much that she dared not open it, but at last she tripped up to her room to be "all of herself," and then... then there was a "wild screech," and when Emmerjane ran upstairs Maggie was stretched out on the floor in a dead faint, clutching in her tight hand the photograph which Owen Owens had returned with the words, written in his heavy scrawl across the face--_Maggie Jones's bastard_.

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A Bastard, Fanna T_oo_'n_ee_a.

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Acquiring an unlawful right over the towns of Rimini, Cesena, Sogliano, Ghiacciuolo, they ruled their petty principalities like tyrants by the help of the Guelf and Ghibelline factions, inclining to the one or the other as it suited their humour or their interest, wrangling among themselves, transmitting the succession of their dynasty through bastards and by deeds of force, quarrelling with their neighbours the Counts of Urbino, alternately defying and submitting to the Papal legates in Romagna, serving as condottieri in the wars of the Visconti and the state of Venice, and by their restlessness and genius for military intrigues contributing in no slight measure to the general disturbance of Italy.

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Young men of his own rank, especially the younger sons and bastards of ruling families, sought military service under captains of adventure.

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Somewhere, we know not where, Giuliano de' Medici made love in these bare rooms to that mysterious mother of ill-fated Cardinal Ippolito; somewhere, in some darker nook, the bastard Alessandro sprang to his strange-fortuned life of tyranny and license, which Brutus-Lorenzino cut short with a traitor's poignard-thrust in Via Larga.

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Yet his was in no sense an egotistic purpose like that which moved the Popes of the Renaissance to dismember Italy for their bastards.

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Corrupt and shameless, they indulged themselves in every vice, openly acknowledged their children, and turned Italy upside down in order to establish favourites and bastards in the principalities they seized as spoils of war.

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