 | Alphonse de Lamartine - Biography - 1854 - 418 pages
...when sent to prison and death by the fickle Henry, " Cromwell, I charge thee, fling away ambition ; 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." This Cromwell, earl of Essex, was for a brief space Henry... | |
 | Cyclopaedia, Henry Gardiner Adams - 1854 - 762 pages
...casers ; but as the servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart. — Ephesians, vi. 5, 6. 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. Shakspere. To tell you truly what I wish to be, And never... | |
 | George Croly - English poetry - 1854 - 426 pages
...ml my integrity to heaven, is all I dure now call my own. O Cromwell, Cromwell, I!. if! I but served God with half the zeal I served my king, he would not in mine age Hnvc left me to mine enemies. DEATH. To be, or not to be, that is the question : Whether 'tis nobler... | |
 | British history - 1855 - 482 pages
...country's, Thy God's, and truth's; then if thou fail'st, O Cromwell, Thou fail'st a blessed martyr. 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 my enemies ! XXVI. HOPES BLIGHTED. AD 1536—1553. Ah, when did wisdom covet... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - American literature - 1855 - 482 pages
...time, however, all of these persons of mistaken ambition come to exclaim, with Shakspeare's Wolsey— " 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." Waally's power, already tottering through the influence of... | |
 | Weldon Thornton - Literary Criticism - 1968 - 568 pages
...given me over in my gray hairs." In Shakespeare's Henry Vili, Cardinal Wolsey says to his servant, "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" (III, ii, 455-57)219.41/216.40 PILATE! WY DON'T YOU OLD BACK... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Post Office and Civil Service - 1973 - 86 pages
...of this loss of faith by quoting Cardinal Wolsey's farewell address from Shakespeare's Henry VIII, "Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my king, he would not in mine old age have left me to the mercy of a rude stream that must forever hide me." I cannot stress strongly... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Post Office and Civil Service - 1973 - 46 pages
...of Sir Wolsey's farewell address as stated in Shakespeare's "Henry the Eighth," and I quote, "Had I served my God with half the zeal I served my King, he would not in mine old age have left me to the mercy of a rude stream that must forever hide me." I believe Cardinal Wolsey's... | |
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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. 
