"You may kiss her wherever you please" Topic
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| 1ngram | 01 Dec 2019 12:41 p.m. PST |
Doing a quiz for the Club's AGM and trying to remember where I have read the above. Besieger asks defender to surrender the town as he wishes to kiss the former's mistress on the hand, To which the defender replies that if he can get in within a month he can kiss here wherever he pleases. Searched the relevant books on my shelves but can't find this gem. Anyone here help me out? |
nnascati  | 01 Dec 2019 1:09 p.m. PST |
Sounds like something from Bernard Cornwall, maybe a Sharpe novel? |
| RittervonBek | 01 Dec 2019 1:41 p.m. PST |
David chandler cites the incident as occuring at the siege of Maastricht 1676.The lady in question being the mistress of the Spanish governor Count Calvo. |
| von Schwartz | 01 Dec 2019 6:37 p.m. PST |
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