For certain, I woulde that Mr. Milton were here; but he woulde call our Sports mistimed, and throw a Damp upon our Mirth by not joining in it.
"Mary Powell & Deborah's Diary"
Anne Manning
On either view, then, I think that a work which is addressed only or principally to men's feelings would be mistimed-it would not convince of the necessity, and it would find but a small number of men disposed at present to give it their sympathy.
"Memoirs of James Robert Hope-Scott, Volume 2"
Robert Ornsby
His immoderate elevation; his sudden degradation, his controversy in regard to the sovereignty, his abrupt departure for England, his protracted absence, his mistimed return, the secret instructions for his second administration, the obstinate parsimony and persistent ill-temper of the Queen-who, from the beginning to the end of the Earl's government, never addressed a kindly word to the Netherlanders, but was ever censuring and brow beating them in public state-papers and private epistles-the treason of York and Stanley, above all, the disastrous and concealed negotiations with Parma, and the desperate attempts upon Amsterdam and Leyden-all placed him in a most unfortunate position from first to last.
"History of the United Netherlands, 1586-89, Vol. II. Complete"
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