...man spent, ivith a handkercher round his neck. To the king's message he creed, like a fainting woman, Lord! what can I do? I am spent: people will not obey...but the fire overtakes us faster than we can do it. (Auf die tätigkeit wird mit emphase hingewiesen: Ich habe ja hänser niedergerissen.) Meredith, Tragic...

...with London's chief magistrate, " like a fainting woman," crying in response to the King's message, " Lord ! what can I do? I am spent; people will not...but the fire overtakes us faster than we can do it." The pencil of a Hogarth only could have done justice to the cruel irony of that Lord Mayor's impotence....

...spent, with a handkercher about his neck. To the King's message he cried, like a fainting woman, ' Lord ! what can I do ? I am spent : people will not...been pulling down houses ; but the fire overtakes us 1 HB Wilson, History o] Merchant Taylors School ; St. Kathorine Cree Vestry Minutes, 1666. 1 Henry...

...man spent, with a handkcrcher about his neck. To the King's message he cried, like a fainting woman, "Lord, what can I do? I am spent: people will not...but the fire overtakes us faster than we can do it." People all almost distracted, and no manner of means used to quench the fire. The houses, too, so very...

...about ' with a handkercher about his neck, cried out like a fainting woman to the king's message — Lord what can I do, I am spent, people will not obey...but the fire overtakes us faster than we can do it I ' It was evident if the fire did not reach Chancery Lane ' before Thursday ' it would not be thanks...

...Lord Mayor himself running about with a handkerchief round his neck, crying, "Lord, what can I do? The people will not obey me. I have been pulling down...but the fire overtakes us faster than we can do it." For five days the fire held the mastery. It was a terrible and majestic sight. Showers of "fire-balls,"...

...man spent, with a handkercher about his neck. To the King's message, he cried, like a fainting woman, 'Lord! what can I do? I am spent: people will not...refresh himself, having been up all night. So he left rne, and I him, and walked home; seeing people all almost distracted, and no manner of means used to...

...in order to stop the fire spreading. But Pepys's diary claims the faint-hearted mayor simply cried: Lord! What can I do? I am spent: people will not obey...but the fire overtakes us faster than we can do it.' Later that day, Pepys and his wife watched the fire from a boat: So near the fire as we could for smoke;...

...man spent, with a handkercher round his neck. To the king's message he cried, like a fainting woman, Lord! what can I do? I am spent: people will not obey...down houses but the fire overtakes us faster than tee can do it. (Auf die tätigkeit wird mit emphase hingewiesen: Ich habe ja häuser niedergerissen.)...

...his neck. To the King's message, he cried like a fainting woman: "Lord, what can 1 do? I am spentl People will not obey me. I have been pulling down...the fire overtakes us faster than we can do it.'" Evening came with the fire gaining ground and London facing a night awake. The fire was more visible...