Idk how many of these are “burns”, mainly just ones I think are Funny:
- Henry VIII dad-zoning that one (of…many) ambassadors that kept sending dispatches about how handsome he was.
- “I have this day waited on the King, who arrived late last evening accompanied by the Lady…
To his inquiries about the state of affairs in [Germany] I replied that advices from Envers (Antwerp) stated that everything was improving, and all hoped that Your Majesty would soon make a complete and permanent reform. On this the King observed that there was a report in circulation that the cardinal of Mayence (Maintz) had taken a wife to himself, which was a very scandalous proceeding, and a bad beginning of reform.” - ‘Did I not tell you that whenever you disputed with the queen she was sure to have the upper hand?’
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Another time, [Anne Boleyn] was in the king’s privy chamber and, hearing that Wolsey was hovering importantly outside, waiting for her dismissal and the commencement of men’s business, she rapped out a message for him to come and join them: ‘Where else should he come, except where the king is?’