 | John Stoughton - Windsor (Berkshire, England) History - 1844 - 266 pages
...the scene changes, and we see him at Leicester broken down with misfortune and despair, — " Lodged in the abbey ; where the reverend abbot, With all...bones among ye : Give him a little earth for charity.' " Had Wolsey fallen under the frown of his capricious master in the course of pursuits formed for the... | |
 | Samuel Maunder - 1844 - 544 pages
...WOLSEY'S DEATH. " At last with easy roads he came to Leicester ; Lodged in the abbey: where the rev'rend abbot, With all his convent, honourably received him;...storms of state, Is come to lay his weary bones among you; Give him a little earth for charity !' So went to bed ; where eagerly his sickness Pursued him... | |
 | Albert Henry Payne - 1844 - 286 pages
...honourably receiv'd him ; f // >///n/// ///////. J"/ CARDINAL WOLSEY ENTERING THE ABBEY OF LEICESTER. 15 To whom he gave these words. — O father abbot, An...weary bones among ye ; Give him a little earth for charily ! So went to bed ; where eagerly his sickness Pursu'd him still ; and three nights after this,... | |
 | Selina Bunbury - 1844 - 196 pages
...death, and address to the Abbot, is described by Shakspeare: " O, Father Abbot, An old man, broken with storms of state, Is come to lay his weary bones among ye, Give him a little earth for charity." What is called a broken heart, a heart which pride had broken, saved Wolsey from the axe of the executioner.... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...me naked to mine enemies ! WOLSEY'S DEATH.2 AT last, with easy roads,3 he came to Leicester, Lodged in the abbey ; where the reverend abbot, With all...OF STATE, Is COME TO LAY HIS WEARY BONES AMONG YE J GlVE HIM A LITTLE EARTH FOR CHARITY ! " So went to bed : where eagerly his sickness Pursued him still... | |
 | G. F. Sargent, William Shakespeare - 1846 - 292 pages
...not sit his mule. Kath. Alas, poor man ! Grif. At last, with easy roads, he came to Leicester, Lodged in the abbey; where the reverend abbot, With all his...went to bed : where eagerly his sickness Pursued him si ill ; and, three nights after this, About the hour of eight, (which he himself Foretold should be... | |
 | Agnes Strickland - 1847 - 320 pages
...and grew so ill, He could not sit his mule. At last, with easy roads, he came to Leicester, Lodg'd in the abbey ; where the reverend abbot, With all...him ; To whom he gave these words, — " O, father abbof, An old man, broken with the storms of state, Is come .to lay his weary hones among ye; Give... | |
 | 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Alexander Chalmers - Azerbaijan - 1847 - 638 pages
...reverend abbot, With all his convent, honourably receiv'd him ; To whom he gave these words, — 0 father abbot, An old man, broken with the storms of state, Is come to lay his weary bones among ye ; Oive him a little earth for charity ! So went to bed : where eagerly his sickness Pursu'd him still... | |
 | Leitch Ritchie - 1848 - 392 pages
...illness, and despair. How great is the contrast, and how well has it been described ! — " Lodged in the abbey, where the reverend abbot With all his...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... | |
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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... 
