| Louise Creighton - Great Britain - 1883 - 382 pages
...scaffold, it seemed to him so weak that he fancied it might fall, so he said merrily to Kingston, " See me safe up, and for my coming down let me shift for myself." Crowds of people had gathered to see him die, and he began to speak to them, but he was not allowed... | |
| Enchiridion - English wit and humor - 1885 - 292 pages
...so weak that it was ready to fall, said merrily to the lieutenant, " I pray you, master lieutenant, see me safe up, and for my coming down let me shift for myself." Anne Bullen. Queen Anne Bullen, at the time when she was led to be beheaded in the Tower, called one... | |
| Samuel Rawson Gardiner - Great Britain - 1884 - 264 pages
...confidence in the protection of God. ' I pray you,' lie said, when he reached the steps of the scaffold, ' see me safe up, and for my coming down let me shift for myself.' When he had mounted he addressed a few words to the crowd around, and then kneeled down to pray. Then... | |
| Thomas Budd Shaw, Truman Jay Backus - American literature - 1884 - 504 pages
...genial wit ; and even as he climbed the scaffold to bow beneath the headsman's axe, he gayly said, " I pray you see me safe up ; and for my coming down let ine shift for myself." Sir Thomas More's fame as a writer rests upon two works. Tni jne most remarkable,... | |
| Cyclopaedia - 1885 - 1120 pages
...small, very small indeed (clasping her neck). Sis TM •>;:;•. — I pray yon, see me safe up, snd for my coming down, let me shift for myself (ascending the scaffold). R. BTTEKS. — Don't let that awkward njoad tire over my grave. SIB WALTBB SCOTT.— I feel as I were... | |
| 1887 - 784 pages
...hands, O Lord. — Tasso. It is small, very small, indeed, (clasping her neck.) — Anna, Boeli/n. I pray you see me safe up, and for my coming down...shift for myself (ascending the scaffold.) — Sir Thotnas More. Don't let that awkward squad fire over my grave. — JBurn-s. I feel as if I were myself... | |
| Thomas Edward Bridgett - Christian saints - 1891 - 520 pages
...very unsteady, and putting his feet on the ladder, he said merrily to the lieutenant : " I pray thee see me safe up, and for my coming down let me shift for myself". "Then desired he all the people to pray for him and to bear witness with him that he should there suffer... | |
| Nineteenth century - 1891 - 1150 pages
...More turned to the Lieutenant of the Tower, and with a gleam of his old humour said, ' I pray thee, see me safe up, and for my coming down let me shift for myself.' Then he begged all the people to pray for him, and bade them bear witness with him that he should there... | |
| Henry de Beltgens Gibbins - History - 1892 - 290 pages
...it was ready to fall, he said to Master Lieutenant — ' I pray you, I pray you, Master Lieutenant, see me safe up, and for my coming down let me shift for myself.' Then desired he all the people thereabouts to pray for him, and to bear witness with him that he should... | |
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