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" I can never forget the inexpressible luxury and profaneness, gaming, and all dissoluteness, and as it were total forgetfulness of God, (it being Sunday evening,) which this day se'nnight I was witness of, the King sitting and toying with his concubines,... "
The Eclectic Review - Page 242
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The Musical Quarterly, Volume 2

Oscar George Sonneck - 1960 - 720 pages
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The Makers of the Kirk

Thomas Ratcliffe Barnett - 1915 - 430 pages
...and, as it were, total forgetfulness of God — it being Sunday evening — which this dayse'en-night I was witness of; the King sitting and toying with his concubines, Portsmouth, Cleveland, and Mazarine; a French boy singing love songsinthatgloriousgallery; whilstabout twenty of the great...
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Rival Sultanas: Nell Gwyn, Louise de Kéroualle, and Hortense Mancini

Hugh Noel Williams - 1915 - 448 pages
...dissoluteness, and, as it were, a total forgetfulness of God (it being Sunday evening) which this day se'nnight I was witness of : the King sitting and toying with his concubines, Portsmouth, Cleveland, Mazarin, etc., a French boy singing love songs, in that glorious gallery, while about twenty of the...
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A Misjudged Monarch (Charles Stuart)

Sir Henry Machu Imbert-Terry (bart.) - 1917 - 420 pages
...Verney Papers. the King sitting and toying with his concubines, Portsmouth, Cleveland and Mazarin, a French boy singing love songs in that glorious gallery, while about twenty of the great courtiers and other dissolute persons were at basset round a large table, a bank of at least £2,000 in gold...
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Unknown London

Walter George Bell - 1920 - 310 pages
...dissoluteness, and as it were total forgetfulness of God (it being Sunday evening) which this day se'nnight I was witness of, the King sitting and toying with his concubines, Portsmouth, Cleveland, and Mazarin, etc., a French boy singing love-songs, in that glorious gallery, whilst about twenty of...
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London

George Wharton Edwards - 1922 - 642 pages
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The Vagabond Duchess: The Life of Hortense Mancini, Duchesse Mazarin

Cyril Hughes Hartmann - 1926 - 336 pages
...witnesse of, the King sitting and toying with his concubines, Portsmouth, Cleaveland, and Mazarine, etc., a French boy singing love songs, in that glorious gallery, while about twenty of the greate courtiers and other dissolute persons were at Basset round a large table, a bank of at least...
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The Diary of Samuel Pepys ...

Samuel Pepys - 1926 - 1258 pages
...dissoluteness, and, as it were, total forgetfulness of God (it being Sunday evening) which this day se'nnight I was witness of; the King sitting and toying with his concubines, Portsmouth, Cleveland, Mazarin, &c. A French boy singing love songs in that glorious gallery, whilst about twenty of the great...
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The Diary of Samuel Pepys ...: v. 4-6, 1664-1667

Samuel Pepys - 1928 - 1250 pages
...dissoluteness, and, as it were, total forgetfulness of God (it being Sunday evening) which this day se'nnight I was witness of; the King sitting and toying with his concubines, Portsmouth, Cleveland, Mazarin, &c. A French boy singing love songs in that glorious gallery, whilst about twenty of the great...
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Poison at Court: Certain Figures of the Reign of Louis the Fourteenth

Marie Scherr - 1931 - 296 pages
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