 | Ernest Wood - Philosophy - 1989 - 216 pages
...experience to make him pay attention. There are few people who repent of their folly without this lesson. " Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my king, he would not in mine age have left me naked to mine enemies," said Wolsey, and his method of learning was quite a typical... | |
 | H. Dale Crockett - History - 1982 - 132 pages
...poignant statement of Cardinal Wolsey who had once fallen victim to misplaced allegiance. Wolsey remarked: "Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my king, he would not in mine age have left me naked to mine enemies."49 An examination of the behavior of the Nixon loyalists would... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...Weary and old with service, to the mercy Of a rude stream that must forever hide me. (Ill, ii) OHFP 67 wlw age Have left me naked to mine enemies. (Ill, ii) OHFP King Henry VI, Pt. Ill 61 O tiger's heart wrapped... | |
 | D. A. Brading - History - 2002 - 320 pages
...been familiar with the works of Shakespeare, surely he would have echoed Cardinal Wolsey's lament: Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my king, he would not in mine age Have left me naked to mine enemies. Whatever his thoughts and regrets, on 10 September 1825, overcome... | |
 | Stanley Wells - Biography & Autobiography - 1997 - 438 pages
...he foresees the King will advance but whom he advises to shun ambition and to avoid his own errors: O Cromwell, Cromwell, Had I but served my God with...half the zeal I served my King, He would not in mine age Have left me naked to mine enemies. (3.2.455-8) Wolsey's extended expressions of penitence and... | |
 | Robert Andrews - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1997 - 666 pages
...The Correspondence of Alexander Pope, vol. 1, ed. George Sherburn (1956). Letter, Oct. 19, 1709. 5 Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my King, He would not in mine age Have left me naked to mine enemies. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, (1564-1616) British dramatist, poet. Cardinal... | |
 | Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...10271 Hen try Via A peace above all earthly dignities, A still and quiet conscience. 10272 Henry VIII d each, in his separate star, Shall draw the Thing as he sees It for the God of T age Have left me naked to mine enemies. 10273 Henry VIII Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues... | |
 | Ira E. Harrison, Faye V. Harrison, Faye Venetia Harrison - Biography & Autobiography - 1999 - 318 pages
...Who Never Was Ira E. Harrison O! how wretched is that poor man that hangs on princes' favours! . . . Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my king, he would not in mine age Had left me naked to mine enemies. — William Shakespeare, King Henry VIII Full many a gem of... | |
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And, pr'ythee, lead me in : There take an inventory of all I have, To the last penny ; 'tis the king's : my robe, And my integrity to Heaven, is all I dare now call my own. 
