 | Mike Corbishley - History - 1998 - 420 pages
...way to his trial. As he lay dying, he said to the king's official: If I had served Ciod as dillgentlv as I have done the King, he would not have given me over in my grey haics ... I warn you to be well advised . . . what matter you put in his [the king's] head; for ye... | |
 | Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...Abbot, I am come to lay my bones amongst you. 12735 Had I but served God as diligently as 1 have served the King, he would not have given me over in my grey hairs. WOMBAT RT 12736 The lazy man gets round the sun as quickly as the busy one. WOOD lames Mason 12737... | |
 | Ian Wilson - Biography & Autobiography - 1999 - 564 pages
...Everyman edition p. 192. 21 Quoted in Irwin Smith, Shakespeare's Blackfriars Playhouse, p. 23 - 'if I had served God as diligently as I have done the King he would not have given me over in my grey hairs.' 22 Henry vin, III.ii.455-7. 23 ibid.,IV.ii. 24 ibid., IV.ii. 133. 25 ibid.,Vv28ff. 26 ibid.,Vv56-61.... | |
 | Joseph A. Gribbin - History - 2001 - 310 pages
...[Wolsey], woll not desire' [my emphasis]. Even Wolsey is reputed to have said, on his deathbed, 'if I had served God as diligently as I have done the king, He would not have given me over in my grey hairs'. And yet perhaps a more balanced overview of their careers would give a more favourable verdict.12'... | |
 | Derek Wilson - History - 2002 - 620 pages
...the biography which later inspired Shakespeare. He described the aged churchman's remorse 'if I had served God as diligently as I have done the king, he would not have given me over in my grey hairs'. There followed a long speech in which Wolsey deplored the divorce proceedings and warned that if this... | |
 | John Phillips - Religion - 2002 - 648 pages
...traveled as far as Leicester Abbey where he died. His last words have gone down in history: "Had I but served God as diligently as I have done the King, he would not have given me over in my gray hairs."1 Look out for princes! Solomon continued by telling us to look out for paupers: "All the... | |
 | Michael Counsell - Travel - 2003 - 258 pages
...works of charity, but he died a year later saying, 'Had I but served God as diligently as I have served the King, he would not have given me over in my grey hairs.' The colleges he had rounded at Ipswich and Oxford were suppressed, but the latter was re-founded as... | |
 | George Courtauld - History - 2005 - 76 pages
...Rome sacked 1529 The Ottoman Turks attack Vienna "Had I but served God as diligently as I have served the King, he would not have given me over in my grey hairs." 1533 King Henry marries Anne Boleyn 1534 The Act of Supremacy: The Pope's authority in England abolished... | |
 | Rebecca Fraser - History - 2005 - 868 pages
...now in the Council who would dare to. Wolsey's last words were 'Had I served God as carefully as my king, he would not have given me over in my grey hairs.' But events in England were moving swiftly onward, propelled by the king's passion for Anne Boleyn -... | |
 | Jessie Childs - History - 2007 - 450 pages
...London. Broken in body and spirit, he had just enough strength to utter his famous last words: 'If I had served God as diligently as I have done the King, he would not have given me over in my grey hairs' (Two Early Tudor Lives, p. 183). His fall left a power vacuum at Court that Norfolk was initially tipped... | |
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Well, well, Master Kingston," quoth he, "I see the matter against me how it is framed; but if I had served God as diligently as I have done the king, he would not have given me over in my grey hairs. 
