| Arthur Thomas Malkin - 1838 - 520 páginas
...scaffold, on going up to which, he said to the Lieutenant of the Tower, " I pray you, Master Lieutenant, see me safe up, and for my coming down let me shift for myself." After his prayers were ended he turned to the executioner and said, with a cheerful countenance, "... | |
| Thomas Keightley - 1839 - 564 páginas
...observing it to be weak and shaking, he said in his usual jocose manner, " I pray you, master lieutenant, see me safe up, and for my coming down let me shift for myself." He called on the people to pray for him, and to bear witness that he suffered death in and for the... | |
| George Lillie Craik - 1839 - 932 páginas
...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 the... | |
| Kālīkṛṣṇa (Deva raja.) - 1841 - 500 páginas
...moments. Observing the scaffold to be weak and tottering, he said, " I pray you, master lieutenant, see me safe up, and for my coming down let me shift for myself." When the executioner, in the usual manner, asked his forgiveness, he said, " Pluck up thy spirits,... | |
| Philip Alexander Prince - 1843 - 776 páginas
...scaffold was very weakly constructed, he observed to the lieutenant of the Tower, ' I pray you, sir, see me safe up ; and for my coming down, let me shift for myself;' and after having placed his head on the block, he requested the executioner to wait until he had removed... | |
| Shakespeare Society (Great Britain) - 1844 - 144 páginas
...thou cutst not off my beard : oh, I forgot ; execution past vppon that last night, Master Lieu-tenant, see me safe up, and for my coming down let me shift for myself.' " Roper's Life of More, p. 94, ed. 1822. 1 Hang. / beseeche ye, my lord, forgiue me, &c ] " Hang."... | |
| Anthony Munday - 1844 - 154 páginas
...thou cutst not off mv beard: oh, I forgot; execution past vppon that last night, Master Lieutenant, see me safe up, and for my coming down let me shift for myself.' " Roper's Life of More, p. 94, ed. 1822. 1 Hang. / beseeche ye, my lord, forgiue me, &c ] " Hang."... | |
| John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1845 - 684 páginas
...seemed weak, and he had some difficulty in mounting it. Whereupon 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 devotion, he addressed the executioner, to... | |
| 1845 - 538 páginas
...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... | |
| Charles MacFarlane - 1845 - 556 páginas
...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... | |
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