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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... "
Cumberland's British Theatre: With Remarks, Biographical and Critical - Page 50
edited by - 1826
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Highways and Byways in Leicestershire

John Benjamin Firth - Leicestershire (England) - 1926 - 462 pages
...of exquisite beauty which haunt the memory. At last, with easy roads, he came to Leicester ; Lodg'd in the abbey ; where the reverend abbot, With all...charity ! " So went to bed ; where eagerly his sickness Pursu'd him still ; and, three nights after this, About the hour of eight —which he himself Foretold...
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Andrew Johnson: Plebeian and Patriot

Robert Watson Winston - Literary Criticism - 1928 - 620 pages
...love he has ever borne them. With hands raised aloft he concludes in the words of Cardinal Wolsey : "An old man broken with the storms of state Is come...bones among ye, Give him a little earth for charity." The Volunteer State is at attention. From Cumberland Gap, in the Virginia and Kentucky mountains, to...
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A College Grammar

Mason Long - English language - 1928 - 344 pages
...make all the ballads he need not care who should make the laws of a nation. — ANDREW FLETCHER 4. An old man broken with the storms of state Is come...bones among ye; Give him a little earth for charity. — WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 5. So dark a mind within me dwells, And I make myself such evil cheer, That...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 92

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1853 - 578 pages
...Robertson's ' twelve domestics only' — reached the convent, and saluted the prior and his new brethren — An old man broken with the storms of state Is come to lay his weary bones among ye. The picturesque Principal, wishing to enhance present lowliness with the contrast of past greatness,...
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The Oxford Shakespeare: King Henry VIII: or All is True

William Shakespeare - Drama - 2008 - 246 pages
...his mule . KATHERINE Alas , poor man . GRIFFITH At last, with easy roads he came to Leicester, Lodged in the abbey, where the reverend abbot With all his...him; To whom he gave these words : ' O , father abbot , 20 An old man broken with the storms of state Is come to lay his weary bones among ye. Give him a...
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Henry VIII

William Shakespeare - Drama - 2001 - 180 pages
...abbot With all his covent honorably received him, 19 To whom he gave these words: "O father abbot, 20 An old man, broken with the storms of state, Is come...sickness Pursued him still, and three nights after this, After the hour of eight, which he himself Foretold should be his last, full of repentance, Continual...
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Henry VIII

William Shakespeare - Drama - 2011 - 355 pages
...he came to Leicester, Lodged in the abbey, where the reverend abbot With all his convent honorably received him; To whom he gave these words: "O Father...Abbot, An old man, broken with the storms of state, 25 Is come to lay his weary bones among you. Give him a little earth, for charity." So went to bed,...
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