...London Wolsey fell mortally ill, and turned aside at Leicester to die in the abbey there, with the words : — " . . . O, Father Abbot, An old man, broken...bones among ye : Give him a little earth for charity ! " 2 399. Appeal to the Universities. — Before Wolsey's death, Dr. Thomas Cranmer, of Cambridge,...

...Leicester, Lodg'd in the abbey; where the reverend abbot, With all his convent, honourably receiv'd him ; To whom he gave these words, " O, father abbot,...charity ! " So went to bed ; where eagerly his sickness Pursu'd him still: and, three nights after this, About the hour of eight, which he himself Foretold...

...abbot, With all his covent, honourably received him; To whom he gave these words, ' O father abbot, 30 An old man, broken with the storms of state, Is come...sickness Pursued him still; and three nights after this, 35 About the hour of eight, which he himself Foretold should be his last, full of repentance, Continual...

...six feet, even though they be not driven to the extremity of craving it as a boon, like Wolsey, who, An old man, broken with the storms of state, Is come...bones among ye : Give him a little earth for charity ! Henry УШ., Act. ¡v., Sc. a. Ill-weavcd ambition, how much art thou shrunk! When that this body...

...six feet, even though they be not driven to the extremity of craving it as a boon, like Wolsey, who, An old man, broken with the storms of state, Is come...bones among ye : Give him a little earth for charity ! Henry VIII., Act. iv., Sc. a. Ill-weaved ambition, how much art thou shrunk I When that this body...

...Leicester, Lodg'd in the abbey ; where the reverend abbot, With all his 6covent, honourably receiv'd him ; To whom he gave these words, — " O father...charity ! " So went to bed ; where eagerly his sickness Pursu'd him still : and, throe nights after this, About the hour of eight, — which he himself 30...

...picture of the scene in Leicester (historically accurate and taken from Holinshed almost word for word) : Where the reverend abbot With all his convent honorably...broken with the storms of state Is come to lay his wea1y bones among ye ; Give him a little earth for charity." ! 1Act III., Scene 2. We may compare this...

...came to Leicester ; Lodged in the Abbey ; where the reverend Abbot, With all his convent, honourably received him : To whom he gave these words, — "...charity ! " So went to bed, where eagerly his sickness a Perhaps, haply. 6 Report. c Short journeys or stages. 360 THE READER'S SHAKESPEARE. [Act *. Pursued...

...abbot, With all his covent, honourably received him ; To whom he gave these words, ' O father abbot, 20 An old man, broken with the storms of state, Is come...eagerly his sickness Pursued him still ; and three nighta after this, About the hour of eight, which he himself Foretold should he his last, full of repentance,...

...recent to the dying Katharine. Wolsey's ambition ends with his appeal to the Abbot of Leicester — " O father Abbot, An old man, broken with the storms...bones among ye ; Give him a little earth for charity ! " "His overthrow heaped happiness upon him ; For then, and not till then, he felt himself, And found...