...life that he pronounced judgment upon the moral compromises he had made in his service to the King: "If I had served God as diligently as I have done the king, he would not have given me over in my gray hairs."33 The Cardinal faced death nobly, warning those about him both of the contagion of heresy...

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...way to his trial. As he lay dying, he said to the king's official: If I had served Ciod as dillgentlv as I have done the King, he would not have given me over in my grey haics ... I warn you to be well advised . . . what matter you put in his [the king's] head; for ye...

...Abbot, I am come to lay my bones amongst you. 12735 Had I but served God as diligently as 1 have served the King, he would not have given me over in my grey hairs. WOMBAT RT 12736 The lazy man gets round the sun as quickly as the busy one. WOOD lames Mason 12737...

...907; Everyman edition p. 192. 21 Quoted in Irwin Smith, Shakespeare's Blackfriars Playhouse, p. 23 - 'if I had served God as diligently as I have done...he would not have given me over in my grey hairs.' 22 Henry vin, III.ii.455-7. 23 ibid.,IV.ii. 24 ibid., IV.ii. 133. 25 ibid.,Vv28ff. 26 ibid.,Vv56-61....

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...ye [Wolsey], woll not desire' [my emphasis]. Even Wolsey is reputed to have said, on his deathbed, 'if I had served God as diligently as I have done...He would not have given me over in my grey hairs'. And yet perhaps a more balanced overview of their careers would give a more favourable verdict.12'...