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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 Family Shakspeare ... in which Nothing is Added to the Original Text ...

William Shakespeare - 1825 - 372 pages
...man ! Grif. At last, with easy roads, he came to Leicester, Lodg'd in the abbey ; where the reverend abbot, With all his convent, honourably receiv'd him...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 still...
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The plays of William Shakspeare, pr. from the text by G. Steevens ..., Volume 7

William Shakespeare - 1826 - 648 pages
...man ! Grif. At last, with easy roads 2, he came to Leicester, Lodg'd in the abbey; where the reverend abbot, With all his convent, honourably receiv'd him...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 still...
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Cumberland's British Theatre: With Remarks, Biographical and Critical, Volume 5

George Daniel, John Cumberland - English drama - 1826 - 530 pages
...Leicester; I.odged in the abbey ; where the reverend abbot, With all his convent, honourably received him; To whom he gave these words — " O, father abbot,...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...
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The life and death of Thomas Wolsey, cardinall. Repr., with an intr. and notes

Thomas Storer - 1826 - 138 pages
...said, ' Father 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 to lay his weary bones among ye ; Give him a little earth for charity. HENRY VIII. Act iv. Sc. 2. P. 76. stanza 3. And had the dutie...
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A New Universal Biography: Forming the first volume of series III

John Platts - Biography - 1826 - 632 pages
...honourably received in 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 to lay his weary bones among ye, Give him a little earth for charity ! His disorder gaining upon him, a few days brought him to...
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A New Universal Biography, Containing Interesting Accounts, Volume 4

John Platts - Biography - 1826 - 624 pages
...honourably received in 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 to lay his weary bones among ye, Give him a little earth for charity ! His disorder gaining upon him, a few days brought him to...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 35

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1827 - 650 pages
...Leicester, Lodged in the abbey, where the reverend abbot, With all his convent, honourably received him, To whom he gave these words, " O father abbot,...the storms of state, Is come to lay his weary bones amongst ye ; Give him a little earth for charity !" So went to bed, where eagerly his sickness Pursued...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 35

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1827 - 648 pages
...Leicester, Lodged in the abbey, where the reverend abbot, With all his convent, honourably received him, To whom he gave these words, " O father abbot,...the storms of state, Is come to lay his weary bones amongst ye ; Give him a little earth for charity !" So went to bed, where eagerly his sickness Pursued...
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The Beauties of Shakspeare Regularly Selected from Each Play. With a General ...

William Shakespeare - 1827 - 658 pages
...the abbey; where the reverend abbot, With all his convent, honourably receiv'd him; To whom he cave these words,— O, father abbot, An old man, broken...with the storms of state, Is come to lay his weary hones among ye; Give him a tittle earth for charity! So went to bed: where eagerly his sickness Pursu'd...
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Letters from Europe, the journal of a tour through Ireland ..., Volume 1

Nathaniel Hazeltine Carter - 1827 - 544 pages
...reverend abbot, With his convent, honourably received him ; To whom he gave these words : ' O lather 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.' " This passage from Shakspeare is as true to history, as...
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