Good Queen Bess

good Queen Bess English Alternative forms en good Queen Bess Proper noun Good Queen Bess en informal en Queen Bess Elizabeth I. en 1840 November w:Thomas Hood Rhymes for the Times, and Reason for the Season. By Thomas Hood, Esq. Part III. Miss Kilmansegg and Her Precious Leg. A Golden Legend. w:Theodore Hook The New Monthly Magazine and Humorist LX (1840, part the third) CCXXXIX London Henry Colburn,Great Marlborough Street. Sold by all booksellers. 402 https://archive.org/details/sim_new-monthly-magazine_1840-11_60_239/page/402/mode/1up 7489261 A Breakfast—no unsubstantial mess / But one in the style of Good Queen Bess, / Who,—hearty as hippocampus,— / Broke her fast with ale and beef, / Instead of toast and the Chinese leaf, / And in lieu of anchovy—grampus! en 1885 Edna Lyall pseudonym; Ada Ellen Bayly Hugo Meets a Patriot In the Golden Days[…] In Three Volumes I London Hurst and Blackett,publishers, 13, Great Marlborough Street. 134 https://archive.org/details/ingoldendaysbye00baylgoog/page/n148/mode/1up 22343037 Denham and Hugo, who were standing close to Temple Bar, had the benefit of a close and prolonged inspection of the long procession, for on the eastern side a halt was ordered, while before the statue of ‘Good Queen Bess’ one of the gorgeously arrayed performers sang a patriotic song, extolling the memory of the good Queen, the Protestant religion, and the Reformation, denouncing all ‘Popish knaves,’ lamenting the unfortunate Sir Edmondsbury Godfrey, and warning all good citizens to shun the Pope and his boon companion. en 1890 Paul Cushing The Little Gods at Work The Bull i’ th’ Thorn: A RomanceBy Paul Cushing, Author of ‘The Blacksmith of Voe,’ Etc., Etc. In Three Volumes I Edinburgh; London William Blackwood and Sons 93 https://archive.org/details/bulliththornroma01cushiala/page/93/mode/1up 55580791 She made her way to a secluded frescade in the grounds, where was a stone belvedere, and, hard by on a natural hillock, a marble statue of Good Queen Bess on a pedestal of native rock. en 1903 July Constance Mary Pott ‘How Was It Possible?’ Baconiana: A Quarterly Magazine I (Third Series) 3 London Gay & Bird22 Bedford Street W.C. 174 https://archive.org/details/1903-vol.-i-third-series-no-1-4/page/174/mode/1up 0961-2173 4758164 I do not address those who live in full faith of the glories of “Good Queen Bess,” and of the “Galaxies of Wits” who adorned her Court, and who, without any apparent preliminary training, suddenly, simultaneously, and in wondrously harmonious chorus broke forth into song. en 1977 December James Morton The Ship’s Cat w:Rosalind Wade Contemporary Review 231 1343 London Contemporary Review Co. Literary Supplement, Shorter Reviews 335 https://archive.org/details/dli.calcutta.05723/page/335/mode/1up 2 0010-7565 1564974 Hot on the heels of The Plague Dogs, Richard Adams’ latest story of animal life, comes this delightful tale in verse of a ship’s cat who is captured by the Spanish, thrown into Chagres gaol, only to escape and return to England laden with booty for Good Queen Bess. en 1990 November Anthony Gooch The Falklands War and a Very Special Relationship: The Hispanic World and the Anglo-Saxon World: Part One Betty Abel Contemporary Review 257 1498 London Contemporary Review Co. 225 https://archive.org/details/dli.calcutta.05751/page/n233/mode/1up 0010-7565 1564974 In Spanish eyes, the Great Elizabeth was neither ‘Gloriana’ nor ‘Good Queen Bess’, but ‘es la inglesona’. 47–48 48 Meanwhile, William Hartston, who writes the “Beachcomber” column in The Express, has come up with the truly inspired story of the Apostropher Royal, an ancient and honourable post inaugurated in the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. His story goes that a humble greengrocer (in days of yore) was delivering potatoes to Good Queen Bess and happened to notice a misplaced apostrophe in a royal decree. en Nicknames for individuals