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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 Works of Shakespeare ...: Collated with the Oldest Copies, and Corrected ... - Page 375
by William Shakespeare - 1740
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Fifteen Plays of Shakespeare: With a Glossary Abridged from the Oxford ...

William Shakespeare - 1916 - 1174 pages
...: 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...earth for charity.' So went to bed, where eagerly his sickness Pursu'd him still ; and three nights after this, 25 About the hour of eight, — which he...
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Canada Lancet, Volume 52

Medicine - 1918 - 638 pages
...great odds tells his sad condition in these words : — 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. Henry VIII, iv, 2. Adam in As You Like It (ii, 3), very beautifully tells of his own robust age thus...
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Shakespeare's Historical Plays, Poems & Sonnets

William Shakespeare - English literature - 1924 - 904 pages
...received him ; To whom he gave these words, ' O father abbot, An old man, broken with the storms of state, Is come to lay his weary bones among ye ; Give him...for 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...
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The Manchester & Glasgow Road: This Way to Gretna Green, Volume 1

Charles George Harper - England - 1924 - 296 pages
...him ; To whom he gave these words — " 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." He died the third day of his arrival, in the sixtieth year of his age. On the second day, observing...
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The American Catholic Quarterly Review, Volume 4

James Andrew Corcoran, Patrick John Ryan, Edmond Francis Prendergast - 1879 - 796 pages
...religious had " honorably received him," " 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 !" we are fain to worship him. The character of Wolsey in Henry VIII. is a creation of no tinCatholic...
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The Ghosts in Shakespeare: A Study of the Occultism in the Shakespeare Plays

Louis William Rogers - Dramatists, English - 1925 - 212 pages
...receiv'd him: To whom he gave these words: 'O! father abbot, An old man, broken with the storms of state, Is come to lay his weary bones among ye; Give him...earth for 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...
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The Yale Shakespeare: The life of King Henry the eighth, ed. by J.M. Berdan ...

William Shakespeare - 1925 - 184 pages
...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...earth for charity.' So went to bed, where eagerly his sickness 24 Pursu'd him still; and three nights after this, About the hour of eight,—which he himself...
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The Life of King Henry the Eighth, Volume 16

William Shakespeare - 1925 - 184 pages
...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...earth for charity.' So went to bed, where eagerly his sickness 24 Pursu'd him still; and three nights after this, About the hour of eight, — which he himself...
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Highways and Byways in Leicestershire

John Benjamin Firth - Leicestershire (England) - 1926 - 462 pages
...; To whom he gave these words : — " O father abbot, An old man, broken with the storms of state, Is come to lay his weary bones among ye : Give him...for 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...
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Andrew Johnson: Plebeian and Patriot

Robert Watson Winston - Literary Criticism - 1928 - 620 pages
...raised aloft he concludes in the words of Cardinal Wolsey : "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 Volunteer State is at attention. From Cumberland Gap, in the Virginia and Kentucky mountains, to...
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