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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 History of the Life and Times of Cardinal Wolsey: Prime Minister to King ... - Page 354
by Joseph Grove - 1748
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The Beauties of Shakespeare: Selected from Each Play : with a General Index ...

William Shakespeare, William Dodd - Fore-edge painting - 1824 - 428 pages
...abbot, With all his convent, honourably receiv'd him; To whom he gave these words,—0, father abbot, An old man, broken with the storms of state, Is come...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 British Theatre: Or, A Collection of Plays, which are Acted at ..., Volume 6

Mrs. Inchbald - English drama - 1824 - 444 pages
...With all his convent, honourably received him ; To whom he gave these words, — " O father abbot, An old man, broken with the storms of state, Is come...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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A dictionary of quotations from the British poets, by the author of The ...

British poets - 1824 - 676 pages
...setting : T shall fall Like a bright exhalation in the evening, And no man see me more, O father abbot, An old man, broken with the storms of state, Is come...bones among ye ; Give him a little earth for charity. His overthrow heap'd happiness upon him ; For then, and not till then, he felt himself, And found the...
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The Plays, Volume 7

William Shakespeare - 1824 - 358 pages
...lamentation, and without any throes of tumultuous misery. — JOHNSON. t- Haply. J By short stages. Is come to lay his weary bones among ye ; Give him a little earth for chanty .' So went to bed : where eagerly his sickness . Pursu'd him still ; and three nights after...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: Accurately Printed from ..., Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1824 - 512 pages
...father abbot, An old man, broken with the storms of stale, ts come to lay his weary bones among ye j Give him a little 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 (w"hich he himself...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare, Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1824 - 512 pages
...father abbot, Jin old man, broken with the storms of state, A come to lay his weary bones among ye; One him a little 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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Cumberland's British Theatre: With Remarks, Biographical and Critical, Volume 5

George Daniel, John Cumberland - English drama - 1826 - 530 pages
...abbot, With all his convent, honourably received him; To whom he gave these words — " O, father abbot, An old man broken with the storms of state, Is come...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 plays of William Shakspeare, pr. from the text by G. Steevens ..., Volume 7

William Shakespeare - 1826 - 648 pages
...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 state, Is come...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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A New Universal Biography, Containing Interesting Accounts, Volume 4

John Platts - Biography - 1826 - 624 pages
...the abbey. The pathetic language of Shakspeare represents him as saying on entrance, O father abbot, An old man, broken with the storms of state, Is come...bones among ye, Give him a little earth for charity ! His disorder gaining upon him, a few days brought him to his end, in the sixtieth year of his age....
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The life and death of Thomas Wolsey, cardinall. Repr., with an intr. and notes

Thomas Storer - 1826 - 138 pages
...abbot, I am come hither to leave my bones among you.' " In Shakspeare the words are : -O Father abbot, An old man, broken with the storms of state, Is come...bones among ye ; Give him a little earth for charity. HENRY VIII. Act iv. Sc. 2. P. 76. stanza 3. And had the dutie to my GOD bin such.~\ " Well, well, master...
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