 | George Walter Baynham - Elocution - 1881 - 152 pages
...him; "Thou art to do me the greatest benefit that I can receive, "he said ; ' ' pluck up thy spirit, man, and be not afraid to do thine office. My neck is very short ; take heed, therefore, that thou strike not awry, for saving of thine honesty." The executioner... | |
 | Anna Randall Diehl - Readers - 1883 - 422 pages
...him. " Thou art to do me the greatest benefit that I can receive," he said. " Pluck up thy spirit, man, and be not afraid to do thine office. My neck is very short; take heed, therefore, that thou strike not awry for saving of thine honesty." The executioner... | |
 | Griffith, Farran, Browne and co - 1883 - 328 pages
...kissed him. "Thou art to do me the greatest benefit that I can receive,' he said. 'Pluck up thy spirit, man, and be not afraid to do thine office. My neck is very short. Take heed therefore that thou strike not awry for saving of thine honesty.' The executioner... | |
 | John Fletcher Hurst - Reformation - 1884 - 146 pages
...executioner, he said, " Thou art to do me the greatest benefit that I can receive; pluck up thy spirit, man, and be not afraid to do thine office. My neck is very short; take heed, therefore, that thou strike not awry, for saving of thine honesty." 7. Cranmer was,... | |
 | Samuel Rawson Gardiner - Great Britain - 1884 - 264 pages
...kneeled down to pray. Then rising, he turned to the executioner. ' Pluck up thy spirits, man,' he said, ' and be not afraid to do thine office. My neck is very short ; take heed that thou cut not awry.' He then bound a cloth over his eyes, and, again kneeling... | |
 | Blanche Wilder Bellamy - Readers - 1890 - 410 pages
...him. " Thou art to do me the greatest benefit that I can receive," he said. " Pluck up thy spirit, man, and be not afraid to do thine office. My neck is very short ; take heed, therefore, that thou strike not awry for saving of thine honesty." The executioner... | |
 | Henry de Beltgens Gibbins - History - 1892 - 266 pages
...turned to the executioner, and with a cheerful countenance spake unto him — ' Pluck up thy spirits, man, and be not afraid to do thine office, my neck is very short. Take heed therefore thou strike not awry for saving thine honesty.' So passed Sir Thomas More... | |
 | George Rhett Cathcart - American literature - 1892 - 572 pages
...kissed him. "Thou art to do me the greatest benefit that I can receive," he said. " Pluck up thy spirit, man, and be not afraid to do thine office. My neck is very short. Take heed, therefore, that thou strike not awry for saving of thine honesty." The executioner... | |
 | World history - 1887 - 832 pages
...More, kissing him, "thou art to do me the greatest benefit that I can receive. Pluck up thy spirit, man, and be not afraid to do thine office. My neck is very short; take heed, therefore, that thou strike not awry for saving of thine honesty." After laying his... | |
 | John Fletcher Hurst - Church history - 1893 - 760 pages
...executioner, he said, "Thou art to do me the greatest benefit that I can receive ; pluck up thy spirit, man, and be not afraid to do thine office. My neck is very short ; take heed, therefore, that then strike not awry, for saving of thine honesty." Cranmer was,... | |
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Pluck up thy spirits, man, and be not afraid to do thine office. My neck is very short. Take heed therefore thou strike not awry, for saving of thine honesty. 
