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" Had I but served God as diligently as I have served the king, He would not have given me over in my grey hairs. "
A Sketch of the Reformation - Page 166
by Thomas Bayley Fox - 1836 - 259 pages
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The Life of Shakespeare: Enquiries Into the Originality of His ..., Volume 1

Augustine Skottowe - Dramatists, English - 1824 - 402 pages
...was copied almost literally from Holinshed. " If I had served God as diligently as I have done the king, he would not have given me over in my grey hairs." The death of the great child of honour is narrated, not exhibited, in the drama. * Shakspeare gives...
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The life of Shakspeare; enquiries into the originality of his dramatic plots ...

Augustine Skottowe - 1824 - 708 pages
...was copied almost literally from Holinshed. " If I had served God as diligently as I have done the king, he would not have given me over in my grey hairs." The death of the great child of honour is narrated, not exhibited, in the drama. * Shakspeare gives...
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A History of England from the First Invasion by the Romans, Volume 6

John Lingard - Great Britain - 1825 - 528 pages
...could not prevail. And, master " Kyngston, had I but served God as diligently " as I have served the king, he would not have ** given me over in my grey hairs. But this is " my just reward for my pains and study, not " regarding my service to God, but only my...
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The Life of Cardinal Wolsey: And Metrical Visions from the ..., Volume 1

George Cavendish - Great Britain - 1825 - 398 pages
...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 6. Howbeit this is the just reward that I must receive for my worldly diligence and pains that I have...
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King Richard III. King Henry VIII. Troilus and Cressida

William Shakespeare - 1826 - 490 pages
...Kingston,' cjnotli he, ' I see the matter against me how it is framed , but if I had served my Bod as diligently as I have served my king, he would not have given me over in my grey hairs. Howbeit this is the just reward that I must receive for my worldly diligence and pains that I have...
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Memoirs of the Court of Henry the Eighth, Volume 2

Mrs. A. T. Thomson - 1826 - 678 pages
...attended him with much assiduity to the last, " had I but served God as diligently as I have done the king, he would not have given me over in my grey hairs ; " a sentiment, which, trite as it has become, can never be perused without affording a moral lesson...
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The life and death of Thomas Wolsey, cardinall. Repr., with an intr. and notes

Thomas Storer - 1826 - 138 pages
...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." This is the pathetic sentence recorded by Cavendish, from whom it is copied verbatim by Holingshed,...
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Hume and Smollett's Celebrated History of England, from Its First Settlement ...

David Hume, John Robinson - Great Britain - 1827 - 546 pages
...following words to sir William Kmgston, constable of the tower, who had him in custody : " Had I but served God as diligently as I have served my king, he would not have given me over in my gray hairs." Thus died this famous cardinal, whose character* seems to have contained as singular a...
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Library for the people. (Division 1). The wonders of nature and art ..., Issue 2

Library - 1827 - 712 pages
...head ; for you shall never put it out again. " If I had served God as diligently as I have done the king, he would not have given me over in my grey hairs. But this is the just reward that I must receive, for my diligent pains and study that I have taken...
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The History of England: The history of England: reign of Henry the Eighth ...

Sharon Turner - Great Britain - 1828 - 590 pages
...collecting his strength, made his last address, " If I bad served God as diligently as I have done the king, he would not have given me over in my grey hairs. Howbeit, this is my just reward for my worldly diligence and pains to do him service, only to satisfy...
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