 | Walter Thornbury - London (England) - 1892 - 606 pages
...in Roper's " Life of More," " he said hurriedly to the lieutenant, ' I pray you, Master Lieutenant, see me safe up ; and for my coming down, let me shift for myself.' When the axe of the executioner was about to fall, he asked for a moment's delay while he moved aside... | |
 | Saint Thomas More - 1892 - 264 pages
...and imprisonment. Turning to the lieutenant of the Tower, whoaccompanied him, he said: " I pray thee see me safe up, and for my coming down let me shift for myself". Levity ! Say rather the elasticity of a heavenly heart, as the weary feet began to mount the ladder... | |
 | 1893 - 1054 pages
...uuck. The scaffold, too, brought out the quaint humour of Sir Thomas More. At its foot he said, '; I pray you see me safe up, and for my coming down let me shift for myself." The poet Hood would have his little joke, as follows, even though he were never to speak again : "... | |
 | Richard S. Sylvester, Davis P. Harding - Biography & Autobiography - 1962 - 284 pages
...weak that it was ready to fall, he said merrily to Master Lieutenant: "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 thereabout to pray for him, and to bear witness with him that he should... | |
 | Jeanie Watson, Philip McM. Pittman - English literature - 1989 - 308 pages
...the Lieutenant of the Tower helping him up the steps of the scaffold, "I pray you, Master Lieutenant, see me safe up and, for my coming down, let me shift for myself." And to his executioner he said, "Pluck up thy spirits, man, and be not afraid to do thine office. My... | |
 | Virginia Sloyan - Christian poetry - 1990 - 172 pages
...weak that it was ready to fall, he said to Mr. Lieutenant, "I pray you, I pray you, Mr. 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... | |
 | Helen Bevington - Biography & Autobiography - 1996 - 232 pages
...was Sir Thomas More's way to "die merrily," taking leave as he went to the scaffold to be beheaded: "I pray you, see me safe up, and for my coming down let me shift for myself." Others have been nearly as imperturbed. Montaigne said, "Let death find me planting my cabbages." With... | |
 | Simon Hillson - Social Science - 1996 - 762 pages
...decapitation. Ascending the scaffold in 1535, he jested with the Lieutenant of the Tower of London: "See me safe up and, for my coming down, let me shift for myself." In a speech delivered before his execution, he affirmed "that he should now there suffer death in and... | |
 | Maurice Zundel - Catholic Church - 1996 - 332 pages
...Thomas More said to the officer who was taking him to the scaffold : "I pray you, Master Lieutenant, see me safe up, and for my coming down, let me shift for myself."1 Since the door of "the silent chamber" (as he called death) has closed upon him beyond this... | |
 | John Richardson - History - 2000 - 416 pages
...it that the latter, at the foot of the scaffold, begged his captor, '1 pray you, Master Lieutenant, see me safe up, and for my coming down let me shift for myself.' The prior of Charterhouse, John Houghton, and some of his brethren were executed at Tyburn on 4 May... | |
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I pray you Master Lieutenant, see me safe up, and for my coming down let me shift for myself. 
