 I have said, are a competitor. You would depose the Queen! You would be King of England and call a Parliament! Ah, my lord, were it but your own case the loss had been the less. But you have drawn a number of noble persons and gentlemen of birth and quality...  Lives of Eminent British Statesmen - Page 61by Dionysius Lardner - 1838Full view - About this book
 | David Jardine - Great Britain - 1835 - 534 pages
...for her, attending but a fit time to move her Majesty to call you to the Court again. And had not I seen your ambitious affections inclined to usurpation,...heaven and my body at rest that this had not been. Essex. Ah ! Mr Secretary, I thank God for my humiliation, that you, in the ruff of all your bravery,... | |
 | J. F. Foard - 1861 - 592 pages
...are a competitor. You would depose the queen, you would be King of England, and call a parliament. Ah ! my lord, were it but your own case the loss had...against you. For my part I vow to God I wish my soul was in heaven and my body at rest so this had never been." The cunning malignity of this speech, its... | |
 | Algernon Cecil - Biography & Autobiography - 1915 - 450 pages
...are a competitor ; you would depose the Queen, you would be King of England, and call a Parliament. Ah ! my Lord, were it but your own case, the loss...against you. For my part I vow to God I wish my soul was in heaven and my body at rest, so this had never been." Bitter at the beginning, the speech by... | |
 | Nieves Mathews - Philosophy - 1996 - 620 pages
...Queen [he cried], you would be King of England and call a Parliament! Ah, my Lord, were it but your case, the loss had been the less; but you have drawn...against you. For my part, I vow to God, I wish my soul was in heaven and my body at rest, so this had never been.54 Not that Cecil hadn't quietly opposed... | |
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