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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... "
The Plays of William Shakespeare - Page 94
by William Shakespeare - 1804
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The Life and Beauties of Shakespeare: Comprising Careful Selections from ...

William Shakespeare - 1851 - 408 pages
...reverend abbot, With all his convent, honourably receiv'd him; To whom he gave these words, — O, father abbot, .An old man, broken with the storms...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...
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The Comedies, Histories, Tragedies, and Poems of William Shakspere: Comedies ...

William Shakespeare - 1852 - 556 pages
...reverend abbot, With all his convent, honourably receiv'd him ; To whom he gave these words, — " O, father abbot, An old man, broken with the storms of...charity ! " So went to bed : where eagerly his sickness Pursued him still ; and, three nights after this, About the hour of eight, (which he himself Foretold...
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the ohio cultivator

M.B. Bateham and S.D. Harris - 1852 - 396 pages
...is quite perfect. I passed through it recalling the mournful words of the fallen Cardinal Wolsey— An old man, broken with the storms of state, Is come...bones among ye. Give him a little earth for charity ! " "O, father Abbot, The charity of dust for dust was here given, and a few years since several stone...
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The Works of William Shakspeare, Volume 3

William Shakespeare - 1852 - 576 pages
...; To whom he gave these words, — O father abbot, An old man, broken with the storms of state, Js come to lay his weary bones among ye ; Give him a...charity ! .So went to bed : where eagerly his sickness Pursued him still : and three nights after this, About the hour of eight (which ne himself Foretold,...
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McGuffey's Newly Revised Rhetorical Guide: Or, Fifth Reader of the Eclectic ...

William Holmes McGuffey - Elocution - 1853 - 492 pages
...reverend abbot, With all his convent, honorably received him ; To whom he gave these words, — "0, father abbot, An old man, broken with the storms of...charity ! " So went to bed ; where eagerly his sickness Pursued him still ; and, three nights after this, About the hour of eight, (which he himself Foretold...
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The plays of Shakspere, carefully revised [by J.O.] with ..., Part 167, Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1853 - 832 pages
...reverend abbot, With all his convent, honourably received him : To whom he gave these words : — " О h boot, and such addition as your honours Have more...foes The cup of their deserving«. — O, see, see ! Pursued him still ; and three nights after this, About the hour of eight (which he himself Foretold...
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Dictionary of Shakespearian Quotations: Exhibiting the Most Forcible ...

William Shakespeare - 1853 - 444 pages
...grace, That can translate the stubborness of fortune Into so quiet and so sweet a style. AY ii. 1. O father abbot, An old man, broken with the storms of...bones among ye ; Give him a little earth for charity. " H. VIn. iv. 2. RESIGNATION,— continued. Then, dreadful trumpet, sound the general doom ! HJ iii.2....
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The Works of Shakespeare: the Text Carefully Restored According to the First ...

William Shakespeare - 1854 - 538 pages
...reverend abbot, With all his convent, honourably receiv'd him ; To whom he gave these words, — " O, father abbot! An old man, broken with the storms of...charity ! " So went to bed, where eagerly his sickness Pursued him still ; and three nights after this, About the hour of eight, which he himself Foretold...
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The advanced prose and poetical reader, by A.W. Buchan

Alexander Winton Buchan - 1854 - 332 pages
...reverend abbot, With all his convent, honourably receiv'd him ; To whom he gave these words, — " O, father abbot, An old man, broken with the storms of...charity !" So went to bed : where eagerly his sickness Pursued him still ; and, three nights after this, About the hour of eight, (which he himself Foretold...
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Events to be remembered in the history of England

Charles Selby - 1854 - 338 pages
...monks advanced to meet him, with much respect and reverence, Shakspeare makes him address them — " O father abbot ! An old man broken with the storms of...bones among ye : Give him a little earth for charity." He immediately took to his bed, whence he never rose more. A little before he expired, he said to the...
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