...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...

...scaffold, which 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,...

...scaffold, which 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,...

...he had 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,...

...hands, O Lord !"— Tauo. " It is small, very small indeed," (clasping her neck). — Anne Jioleyn. " I pray you, see me safe up, and for my coming down,...for myself," ascending the scaffold). — Sir Thomas More. " Don't let that awkward squad fire over my grave." — Robert Burns. " I feel as if I were to...

...scaffold, which 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,...

...there no bribing 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...

...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...

...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...

...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...