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  • I cannot conclude without informing your Lordship, whom I know to be possessd of a love for nature's music, and a fund of fancys, that I have lately taken up a new and most agreeable trade, that of constructing Eolian

    Letter 191 2009

  • The Top is the Gods and goddesses that are sitting at some great feast and a great tribunal before ym; Each Corner is the seasons of the yeare wth the variety of weather Raines and rainbows, stormy winds, sun shine, snow and frost with multitudes of other fancys and varietyes in painting and Looks very natural – it Cost 500£ that roome alone.

    Through England on a Side Saddle in the Time of William and Mary 1888

  • Mr. Coventry tells me to-day that the Queen had a very good night last night; but yet it is strange that still she raves and talks of little more than of her having of children, and fancys now that she hath three children, and that the girle is very like the King.

    Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 24: September/October 1663 Samuel Pepys 1668

  • Mr. Coventry tells me to-day that the Queen had a very good night last night; but yet it is strange that still she raves and talks of little more than of her having of children, and fancys now that she hath three children, and that the girle is very like the King.

    Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete Samuel Pepys 1668

  • Mr. Coventry tells me to-day that the Queen had a very good night last night; but yet it is strange that still she raves and talks of little more than of her having of children, and fancys now that she hath three children, and that the girle is very like the King.

    Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1663 N.S. Samuel Pepys 1668

  • Mr. Coventry tells me to-day that the Queen had a very good night last night; but yet it is strange that still she raves and talks of little more than of her having of children, and fancys now that she hath three children, and that the girle is very like the King.

    The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Sep/Oct 1663 Pepys, Samuel 1663

  • "Not worth bombarding him some bloke who fancys himself as a comic we can just find something else to amuse ourselves don't be sad who cares," he wrote.

    The Latest From www.inthenews.co.uk 2010

  • "Not worth bombarding him some bloke who fancys himself as a comic we can just find something else to amuse ourselves don't be sad who cares," he wrote.

    The Latest From www.inthenews.co.uk 2010

  • "Not worth bombarding him some bloke who fancys himself as a comic we can just find something else to amuse ourselves don't be sad who cares," he wrote.

    The Latest From www.inthenews.co.uk 2010

  • "Not worth bombarding him some bloke who fancys himself as a comic we can just find something else to amuse ourselves don't be sad who cares," he wrote.

    The Latest From www.inthenews.co.uk 2010

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