 | Počet stránok 462
...!"— Tasio. " It is small, very small indeed," (clasping her neck). — Anne Boleyn. " I pray you, see me safe up, and for my coming down, let me shift for myself," ascending the scaffold). — Sir Thomas More. " Don't let that awkward squad fire over my grave." —... | |
 | Thomas Keightley - 1839 - Počet stránok 566
...scaffold, observing it to be weak and shaking, he said in his usual jocose manner, " I pray you, master lieutenant, see me safe up, and for my coming down let me shift for myself." He called on the people to pray for him, and to bear witness that he suffered death in and for the... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1839 - Počet stránok 932
...weak, and some fears were expressed lest the scaffold might break down. " Mr. Lieutenant," said More, " see me safe up, and for my coming down let me shift for myself." The executioner, as usual, asked forgiveness. "Friend," said More, "thou wilt render me to-day the... | |
 | Philip Alexander Prince - 1843 - Počet stránok 776
...scaffold was very weakly constructed, he observed to the lieutenant of the Tower, ' I pray you, sir, see me safe up ; and for my coming down, let me shift for myself;' and after having placed his head on the block, he requested the executioner to wait until he had removed... | |
 | Shakespeare Society (Great Britain) - 1844 - Počet stránok 144
...take heed thou cutst not off my beard : oh, I forgot ; execution past vppon that last night, Master Lieu-tenant, see me safe up, and for my coming down let me shift for myself.' " Roper's Life of More, p. 94, ed. 1822. 1 Hang. / beseeche ye, my lord, forgiue me, &c ] " Hang."... | |
 | 1845 - Počet stránok 538
...that some fears were expressed that the scaffold might break down. " Master lieutenant," said More, " see me safe up ; and for my coming down, let me shift for myself." Although prohibited from addressing the spectators, he ventured to declare from the scaffold that he... | |
 | Charles MacFarlane - 1845 - Počet stránok 556
...weak, and some fears were expressed lest the scaffold might break down. " Mr. Lieutenant," said More, " see me safe up, and for my coming down let me shift for myself." The executioner, as usual, asked forgiveness. " Friend," said More, " thou wilt render me today the... | |
 | 1845 - Počet stránok 364
...that some fears were expressed that the scaffold might break down. " Master lieutenant," said More, " see me safe up ; and for my coming down, let me shift for myself." Although prohibited from addressing the spectators, he ventured to declare from the scaffold that he... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1845 - Počet stránok 684
...and he had some difficulty in mounting it. Whereupon he said merrily, " Master Lieutenant, I pray you see me safe up, and for my coming down let me shift for myself." Having knelt and pronounced the " Miserere " with great devotion, he addressed the executioner, to... | |
 | Sir James Mackintosh - 1846 - Počet stránok 618
...was so weak that it was ready to fall ; on which he said, merrily, " Master lieutenant, [ pray you see me safe up, and for my coming down let me shift for myself." When he laid his head on the block he desired the executioner to wait till he had removed his beard,... | |
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I pray you Master Lieutenant, see me safe up, and for my coming down let me shift for myself. 
