All this could never prevail on him' to part with his beard, but yet in compliance to his majesty, he went once to court in the very height of the fashion : but as soon as the king and those about him had laughed sufficiently at the strange figure he... A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Scotsmen - Page 60edited by - 1853Full view - About this book
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...his beard ; but yet, in compliance to his majesty, he went once to court in the very height of the fashion ; but as soon as the king, and those about...had not discovered him in his fashionable dress." Creichton, immediately after the affair of Bothwell, is eager to return to his old amusement of preacher-hunting.... | |
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