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Henry VIII believed that his new bride, Anne Boleyn, was comparable to the finest products of the royal orchards-"a wife with a strawberry breath, cherry lips, apricot cheeks, and a soft velvet head like a melicotton [peach]." But old Farmer Brocke insisted that the new Queen was actually the daughter of Old Nick, as was proved by the fact that she had a mole shaped like a strawberry on her white neck, and sometimes touched it with her left hand-on which grew a rudimentary sixth finger. Farmer Brocke believed that King Henry had married a witch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sophoclecm Tragedy | 7/29/1946 | See Source »

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