...serious." — Grotius. "It is small, very small indeed," (clasping her neck.) — Anne Boleyn. " I pray you see me safe up, and for my coming down let me shift for myself" (ascending the scaffold.) — Sir Thomas Moore. " Don't let that awkward squad fire over my grave."...

...suffice. Climbing the crazy timbers where he was to die, he said gaily to the lieutenant, 'I pray you see me safe up; and for my coming down, let me shift for myself.' When life and death were within a second of each other, he bade the executioner to stay his hand till...

...that some fears were expressed that the scaffold might break down. "Master lieutenant," said More, "see me safe up; and for my coming down, let me shift for myself." Although prohibited from addressing the spectators, he ventured to declare from the scaffold that he...

...of execution. Noticing as he ascended the scaffold that it was very weak, he said, " I pray you, Mr. Lieutenant, see me safe up ; and for my coming down, let me shift for myself." The headsman, hardened wretch as he was, could not help showing some 10 emotion. " Pluck up thy spirit,...

...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...

...going up the scaffold, which was 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...

...jokingly to the lieutenant of the Tower, observing that they were weak and shook beneath his tread, " I pray you, Master Lieutenant, see me safe up ; and, for my coming down, I can shift for myself." Also he said to the executioner, after he had laid his head upon the block,...

...jokingly to the lieutenant of the Tower, observing that they were weak and shook beneath his tread, '• I pray you, master lieutenant, see me safe up; and, for my coming down, I can shift for myself." Also he said to the executioner, after he had laid his head upon the block,...

...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...

...seeing the insecurity of the steps to the scaffold, he showed his serenity of mind by his merry remark: "I pray you, master Lieutenant, see me safe up, and for my coming clown I will shift for myself." Shaftesbury's") reply to Charles II. was most apt, and deserved the...