 | British history - 1855 - 482 pàgines
...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... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1856 - 660 pàgines
...fear not: Let all the ends, thou aimest at, be thy country's, Thy God's, and truth's. Act iii. Sc. 2. 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. King Henry VIll. — Continued. Act iv. Sc. 2. Men's evil manners... | |
 | 1856 - 570 pàgines
...the King's; my robe, And my integrity to Heaven, is all I dare now call my own. 0 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. T^TE'LL no more meet, no more see one another : But yet thou... | |
 | 1856 - 518 pàgines
...king's. My robe, And my integrity to Heaven, is all I dare now call my own. 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. SHAKSPEAJU25. SOLILOQUY OF HENRY IV. 0 SLEEP, gentle sleep,... | |
 | Charles Haddon Spurgeon - 1856 - 790 pàgines
...have had to say at the end of life what Wolsey is represented as saying to Sir William Kingston, " Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my king, he would not in mine age have left mo naked to mine enemies." If " uneasy lies the head that wears the crown," certainly,... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - 1856 - 800 pàgines
...with the above, we find in the first chapter a very striking parallel to Wolsey's dyiug words, — 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. A vizier went to Zu'l-nun of Egypt, Zu'l-nun wept, and said,... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Post Office and Civil Service - 1973 - 86 pàgines
...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. Committee on Post Office and Civil Service - 1973 - 1038 pàgines
...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." would give financial... | |
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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. 
