 Your words cannot condemn me ; my innocency is my defence. Prove one of these things wherewith you have charged me, and I will confess the whole indictment, and that I am the horriblest traitor that ever lived, and worthy to be crucified with a thousand...  Life of Sir Walter Ralegh - Page 162by Louise Creighton - 1877 - 270 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Charles Edward Phelps - Equity - 1902 - 232 pages
...would be alternate indignation and laughter as the words were repeated from mouth to mouth : — " Thou art a monster ; thou hast an English face but a Spanish heart." " The ahsolutest traitor that ever was." " The notoriest (sic) traitor that ever held up his hand."... | |
 | George James Smith - English language - 1903 - 360 pages
...When a person wished to be rude. Thus, during the trial of Sir Walter Raleigh, Coke said to him, " Thou art a monster ; thou hast an English face but a Spanish heart .... for I thou thee, thou traitor." 208. The Pronoun of the Second Person Singular is now used —... | |
 | Charles Herbert Sylvester - 1902 - 316 pages
...that ever came to the bar. Raleigh: Your words cannot condemn me. My innocency is my defense. Coke : Thou art a monster. Thou hast an English face but a Spanish heart." Professor Goodrich from Howell's State Trials. an empire is the aggregate of many states under one... | |
 | Georgia Bar Association - Bar associations - 1903 - 368 pages
...traitor that ever lived and worthy to be crucified with a thousand thousand torments. Atty. Gen. — Nay, I will prove all; thou art a monster; thou hast an English face but 'a Spanish heart. Raleigh. — Let me answer for myself? Atty. Gen. — Thou shalt not. Raleigh — It concerneth my... | |
 | Rennell Rodd - 1904 - 316 pages
...of the charges raised, he would confess himself a traitor. "Nay, I will prove all," Coke retorted. "Thou art a monster ; thou hast an English face, but a Spanish heart." It was thus that the Attorney -General addressed the man of Cadiz and the Azores, whose self-imposed... | |
 | Henry Smith Williams - World History - 1904 - 744 pages
...prisoner. "I will prove you to be the most notorious traitor that ever came to the bar," rejoined Coke. " Thou art a monster. Thou hast an English face but a Spanish heart." Coke then proceeded with a recital of his charges against Cobham. "If my lord Cobham be a traitor,... | |
 | Hugh De Sélincourt - 1908 - 368 pages
...will confess all the Indictment, and that I am the most horrible traitor that ever lived." Coke. " Nay I will prove all. Thou art a monster ; thou hast an English face, but a Spanish heart." Then Coke proceeded to give a minute account of Cobham's plots in such a way that, as Edwards notes,... | |
 | Frederic John Wrottesley - Cross-examination - 1910 - 210 pages
...ever lived, and worthy to be crucified with a thousand cruel torments." — " Nay," answered Coke, " I will prove all. — Thou art a monster ; thou hast an English face but a Spanish heart. — Now you must have money. Armberg was no sooner in England (I charge thee, Raleigh) but thou incitest... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - American literature - 1910 - 812 pages
...Still, Nugce Antiquce, vol. I. I will prove you the notoriest Traitor that ever came to the bar. . . . Thou art a monster ; thou hast an English face, but a Spanish heart. . . . We have to deal to-day with a man of wit. . Thou hast a Spanish heart, and thyself art a Spider... | |
 | Francis Lewis Wellman - Law - 1910 - 292 pages
...conduct towards Raleigh in his trial is well known. In his examination he always addressed him as, "thou art a monster; thou hast an English face but a Spanish heart," and similar epithets. This is something like the kind of oratory indulged in by some of our Congressmen... | |
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