| Charles MacFarlane - 1851 - 536 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... | |
| English history - 1851 - 706 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... | |
| Peter Cunningham - 1851 - 432 páginas
...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,... | |
| Peter Cunningham - 1851 - 382 páginas
...weak that it was ready to fall, he said hurriedly to the Lientenant, ' I pray you. Master Lientenant, see me safe up, and for my coming down let me shift fur myself.' " — ltopers Life. Cromwell, Earl of Essex, 1540. — Margaret, Countess of Shrewsbury,... | |
| 1852 - 318 páginas
...remarkable. Observing that the scaffold was so weak that it was ready to fall, he said, " Master lieutenant, I pray you see me safe up, and for my coming down let me shift for myself," — and, when he laid his head on the block, he desired the executioner to wait till he had removed... | |
| Edwin Paxton Hood - 1852 - 206 páginas
...keeping with his cheerful life. As he mounted to the block, he said, merrily, " Master Lieutenant, I pray you see me safe up ; and for my coming down, let me shift for myself." His last words were a humourous allusion to his own innocence, and the caprice of the king who had... | |
| C. Gough - 1853 - 428 páginas
...death ?" — Cardinal Beaufort. " IT matters little how the head lieth." — Sir Walter Raleigh. " I PRAY you see me safe up, and for my coming down,...myself" (ascending the scaffold).. — Sir Thomas Moore. " I'M shot, if I don't believe I'm dying." — Chancellor Thurlow. " GIVE Dayroles a chair." — Lord... | |
| John Murray (Firm), Peter Cunningham - 1853 - 386 páginas
...weak that it was ready to fall, be Baid hurriedly to the Lieutenant, ' I pray yon, 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... | |
| Arthur Thomas Malkin - 1853 - 542 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, "... | |
| Sir James Mackintosh - 1854 - 898 páginas
...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,... | |
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