Anonymous

“ So when some other healths had passed, the King asked if there was not a mistress to so fair a house? otherwise he could help him to a wife, rich and beautiful.
For this offer; Shore thanked him, but told him he was already married to such a one as he described, whom he loved extremely. This discourse made the King more desirous to see her before he departed, and asked if he could not have a sight of her. Shore little thinking that this was intended for his ruin, and proud of his wife's beauty, soon yielded to his request, and ordered her to be called down ”

“ Her father perceiving that, unless he took some speedy course, her great stock of beauty would soon be her ruin, resolved to have her married, so that having surrendered her virginity, and being in the arms of a husband, those that fought to crop her virgin rose would not regard her, but give over the pursuit. ”

“ Lord Hastings was not idle in promoting his master's happiness, and with gifts and large promises soon made the lace woman pliable, so that many meetings were made at her house, the King coming in disguise as her friend; and though Mrs Blague often left them alone, and the King courted her with all his rhetoric, yet the appeared averse to his love, and often blamed him sharply for persuading her to defile her husband's bed; and then she would chide Mrs Blague for suffering such a rude man to come about her house, telling her the design he had oh her chastity ”

“ And both in London and the progresies she made in the country; she would cause poor people to be fought for, and relieved their necessities, inducing and persuading others, who expected any good offices from the King, by her means, to do the same, never selling her favours ”