 | Sir James Mackintosh - 1846 - 618 oldal
...was so weak that it was ready to fall ; on which he said, merrily, " Master lieutenant, [ pray you see me safe up, and for my coming down let me shift for myself." When he laid his head on the block he desired the executioner to wait till he had removed his beard,... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1848 - 702 oldal
...some difficulty in mounting it. to scaffoltlWhereupon he said merrily, " Master Lieutenant, I pray you see me safe up, and for my coming down let me shift for myself." Having knelt and pronounced the " Miserere " with great His devodevotion, he addressed the executioner,... | |
 | 1851 - 318 oldal
...!"— Tauo. " It is small, very small indeed," (clasping her neck). — Anne Jioleyn. " I pray you, see me safe up, and for my coming down, let me shift for myself," ascending the scaffold). — Sir Thomas More. " Don't let that awkward squad fire over my grave." —... | |
 | 1856 - 568 oldal
...Death? " (Cardinal Beaufort.) "I have loved God, my father, and liberty." (De StueL) " I pray you, see me safe up, and for my coming down, let me shift for myself." (Sir Thomas More.) " Don't let that awkward squad fire over my grave." (Burns.) " A dying man can do... | |
 | Sir James Mackintosh - 1850 - 597 oldal
...was so weak that it was ready to fall • on which he said, merrily, "Master lieutenant, I pray you see me safe up, and for my coming down let me shift for myself." When he laid his head on the block he desired the executioner to wait till he had removed his beard,... | |
 | Peter Cunningham - 1851 - 390 oldal
...up the scaffold, which was so weak that it was ready to fall, 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.' " — Roper's Life. Cromwell, Earl of Essex, 1540. — Margaret, Countess of Shrewsbury, mother of... | |
 | Peter Cunningham - 1851 - 432 oldal
...up the seaffold, which wns so weak that it was ready to fall, he BBid hurriedly to the Lieutenant, ' I pray you, Master Lieutenant, see me safe up, and for my coming down let me shift for myaelf.' " — Itoper's Life. Cromwell, Earl of Essex, 1540. — Margaret, Countess of Shrewsbury,... | |
 | James Alexander Manning - 1851 - 544 oldal
...and that of the officials, he turned to the Lieutenant of the Tower, and said — " I pray you, Mr. Lieutenant, see me safe up, and for my coming down, let me shift for myself." Having received a message from the King desiring him to "use but few words at his execution," he merely... | |
 | Charles MacFarlane - 1851 - 536 oldal
...weak, and some fears were expressed lest the scaffold might break down. " Mr. Lieutenant," said More, " see me safe up, and for my coming down let me shift for myself." The executioner, as usual, asked forgiveness. " Friend," said More, " thou wilt render me today the... | |
 | English history - 1851 - 706 oldal
...weak, and some fears were expressed lest the scaffold might break down. " Mr. Lieutenant," said More, " see me safe up, and for my coming down let me shift for myself." , The executioner, as usual, asked forgiveness. " Friend," said More, " thou wilt render me to-day... | |
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I pray you Master Lieutenant, see me safe up, and for my coming down let me shift for myself. 
