Word: gentelmen
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...Tudor park that our good friend and scholar, Roger Aseham, first caught sight of Lady Jane Grey. The little child of thirteen summers was reading ". . . Phaedo Platonis, and that with as much delights as some gentelmen would read a merrie tale in Roeeaeeio." The Duke and Duchess, hunting in the glade nearby, had been abusing her cruelly, for they pinched her if she danced ". . . they, good people, knew not what pleasure meant." The scholar felt himself drawn to this tender young flower of learning, and he watched her as she grow up in the court of Edward VI. At fifteen...
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