 | Kenelm Henry Digby - Church history - 1847 - 844 pages
...died, like Wolsey pursuing his .journey to Leicester, and greeting the abbot and his convent therewith these words: "O father abbot, an old man, broken with...storms of state, is come to lay his weary bones among you ; give him a little earth for charity."" In the Saxon chronicle the account of the imprisonment... | |
 | Agnes Strickland - 1847 - 320 pages
...man sore tainted), to his answer, He fell sick suddenly, and grew so ill, He could not sit his mule. At last, with easy roads, he came to Leicester, Lodg'd...the reverend abbot, With all his convent, honourably received him ; To whom he gave these words, — " O, father abbof, An old man, broken with the storms... | |
 | Leitch Ritchie - 1848 - 392 pages
...described ! — " Lodged in the abbey, where the reverend abbot With all his convent, honourably received him, To whom he gave these words : ' O father abbot,...among ye ; Give him a little earth, for charity.' " By order of James II. the chapel, which was then a mere shell, was splendidly fitted up for the performance... | |
 | Churches of Christ - 1848 - 602 pages
...Lodg'd in the -Abbey, where the reverend Abbot, With all bio convent, honourably received him ; To whnm he gave these words : O! Father Abbot, An old man,...his weary bones among ye. Give him a little earth lor charity ! So went to bed — where eagerly his sickness Pursued him still ; and thr-e nights after... | |
 | Sophocles - 1849 - 376 pages
...consistere terra. Non ignara mali, miseris succurrere disco." 2 King Henry the Eighth, Act iv. so. 2, " O father Abbot, An old man, broken with the storms...bones among ye ; Give him a little earth for charity !" B. TH. Wlietlier do you speak of the affairs of your children, or of me ? (Eo. They would compel... | |
 | 1849 - 544 pages
...Wolsey — compare his state, in the plenitude of his power, with his dying scene, exclaiming to the father abbot, An old man, broken with the storms of...bones among ye ; Give him a little earth for charity ! Compare, again, Napoleon Bonaparte, Emperor of France in 1810, with the same man an exile and a prisoner... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1849 - 538 pages
...Wolsey—compare his state, in the plenitude of his power, with his dying scene, exclaiming to the father abbot, An old man, broken with the storms of...bones among ye ; Give him a little earth for charity ! Compare, again, Napoleon Bonaparte, Emperor of France in 1810, with the same man an exile and a prisoner... | |
 | Anne (Aunt.) - Christian life - 1849 - 440 pages
...sickness and sorrow, took refuge in Leicester Abbey, saying to the abbot (according to Shakespeare,) O, father abbot, An old man, broken with the storms of state, Is come to lay his weary bones among you; Give him a little earth for charity. Of all his followers one only remained true to him in his... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 408 pages
...Could say, This is my wife, there; all were woven So strangely in one piece. CARDINAL WOLSEY's DEATH. At last, with easy roads,* he came to Leicester, Lodg'd...Is come to lay his weary bones among ye; Give him a tittle earth for charity! So went to bed : where eagerly his sickness Pursu'd him still; and, three... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 462 pages
...dost t And, live we how we can, yet, die we must. H. VL FT. in. v. 2. ^— — — WOLSEY, CARDINAL. At last, with easy roads, he came to Leicester, Lodg'd...words, — O, father abbot, An old man, broken with ihe storms of stale, Is come to lay his weury bones among ye; Give him a little earth for charity !... | |
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O, father abbot, An old man, broken with the storms of state, Is come to lay his weary bones among ye: Give him a little earth for charity! 
