The Sea-Hawk 海鹰NOTE
Lord Henry Goade, who had, as we shall see, some personal acquaintance
with Sir Oliver Tressilian, tells us quite bluntly that he was ill-favoured.
But then his lordship is addicted to harsh judgments and his
perceptions are not always normal. He says, for instance, of Anne of
Cleves, that she was the "ugliest woman that ever I saw." As far as we
can glean from his own voluminous writings it would seem to be extremely
doubtful whether he ever saw Anne of Cleves at all,