The Story of Bethlehem Hospital from Its Foundation in 1247 |
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The Story of Bethlehem Hospital From Its Foundation in 1247 O'Donoghue Edward Geoffrey No preview available - 2022 |
The Story of Bethlehem Hospital from Its Foundation in 1247 O'Donoghue Edward Geoffrey No preview available - 2015 |
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allusions alms ancient appears asylum Bedelem Bedlam benefactors Bethlehem Hospital Bethlem bishop Bishopsgate Botolph's Bridewell brothers building century chapel CHAPTER charge Charing Cross charity Charles Christ church citizens city of London Clamecy confraternity court books Dog and Duck Edward Edward III Edward Tyson England face fire friends galleries gardens Golightly governors granted ground hand HANNAH SNELL Henry VIII Hogarth Holy incurable insane James John keeper king King Edward's School king's Lady land later lease Lord Mary of Bethlehem master and brethren mayor and aldermen mediæval Moorfields original parish patients perhaps Peter petition physician poor porter present priory Rake's Progress reign religious revenues Richard Richard II royal shillings sick Simon Fitz Mary Staple Hall Stone House Street suffered tavern tenants tenements Thomas to-day Trafalgar Square Tyson visitors walls wards wife William
Popular passages
Page 151 - tis the soul of peace ; Of all the virtues 'tis nearest kin to heaven ; It makes men look like gods. The best of men That e'er wore earth about him was a sufferer, A soft, meek, patient, humble, tranquil spirit, The first true gentleman that ever breath'd.
Page 139 - BEDLAM'S SONG FROM the hag and hungry goblin That into rags would rend ye, And the spirit that stands by the naked man In the book of moons, defend ye, That of your five sound senses You never be forsaken, Nor wander from yourselves with Tom, Abroad to beg your bacon. While I do sing: Any -food, Any feeding, drink, or clothing?
Page 184 - For often, after I had spent this and the other day in sin, I have in my bed been greatly afflicted, while asleep, with the apprehensions of devils and wicked spirits, who still, as I then thought, laboured to draw me away with them, of which I could never be rid.
Page 61 - O Saving Victim, opening wide The gate of Heaven to man below, Our foes press on from every side, Thine aid supply, Thy strength bestow.
Page 150 - There are of mad men, as there are of tame, All humour'd not alike. We have here some So apish and fantastic, play with a feather ; And, though 'twould grieve a soul to see God's image So blemish'd and...
Page 139 - Boldly I preach, hate a cross, hate a surplice, Mitres, copes, and rochets ! Come hear me pray nine times a day, And fill your heads with crotchets.
Page 67 - I have not read, neither of the suppression ; but it was said that sometime a king of England, not liking such a kind of people to remain so near his palace, caused them to be removed farther off, to Bethlem without Bishops gate of London, and to that hospital: the said house by Charing cross doth yet remain.
Page 250 - He gave the little wealth he had To build a house for fools and mad; And show'd by one satiric touch, No nation wanted it so much. That kingdom he hath left his debtor, I wish it soon may have a better.
Page 22 - Remember me, O my God, concerning this, and wipe not out my good deeds that I have done for the house of my God, and for the offices thereof.
Page 150 - ... sons and heirs are free of the house by their fathers' copy. Farmers' sons come hither like geese, in flocks, and when they ha' sold all their cornfields, here they sit and pick the straws.