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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... "
First Steps to Astronomy and Geography - Page 232
by First steps - 1828 - 386 pages
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The Life of King Henry the Eighth, Volume 16

William Shakespeare - 1925 - 184 pages
...abbot, With all his covent, honourably receiv'd 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 little earth for charity.' So went to bed, where eagerly his sickness 24 Pursu'd him...
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Highways and Byways in Leicestershire

John Benjamin Firth - Leicestershire (England) - 1926 - 462 pages
...Leicester ; Lodg'd in the abbey ; where the reverend abbot, With all his convent, honourably received him ; To whom he gave these words : — " O father...storms of state, Is come to lay his weary bones among ye : Give him a little earth for charity ! " So went to bed ; where eagerly his sickness Pursu'd him...
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"Boss" Tweed: The Story of a Grim Generation

Denis Tilden Lynch - New York (N.Y.) - 1927 - 464 pages
...my life, I should, it seems to me, make any sacrifice or effort." Shakespeare gives us its parallel: "An old man, broken with the storms of State, Is come to rest his weary bones among ye; Give him a little earth for charity." A Tweed, softened from the defiant...
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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 to lay his weary bones among ye; Give him a little earth for charity. — WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 5. So dark a mind within me dwells,...
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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 to lay his weary bones among ye, Give him a little earth for charity." The Volunteer State is at attention. From Cumberland Gap,...
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 47

1855 - 1216 pages
...malicious slanders, which he bore alike in such brave sileuce — where were they now ? An old mau Is come to lay his weary bones among you : Give him a little earth for charity. As the body was landed, one clear, prolonged melancholy bugle-note came from over the water, piercing,...
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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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Tales 1812 and Selected Poems

Crabbe - Literary Criticism - 1967 - 492 pages
...insolent foe And sold to slavery. Othello, Act i, Scene 3 An old man, broken with the storms of fate, Is come to lay his weary bones among you ; Give him a little earth for charity. Henry VIII, Act iv, Scene 2 Minutely trace man's life ; year after year, Through all his days let all...
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The Oxford Shakespeare: King Henry VIII: or All is True

William Shakespeare - Drama - 2008 - 246 pages
...With all his convent honourably received 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 little earth, for charity.' So went to bed, where eagerly his sickness Pursued him still;...
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