...so weak that it was ready to fall, said merrily to the lieutenant, " I pray you, master lieutenant, see me safe up, and for my coming down let me shift for myself." Anne Bullen. Queen Anne Bullen, at the time when she was led to be beheaded in the Tower, called one...

...Lord. — Tasso. It is small, very small, indeed, (clasping her neck.) — Anna, Boeli/n. I pray you see me safe up, and for my coming down let me shift for myself (ascending the scaffold.) — Sir Thotnas More. Don't let that awkward squad fire over my grave. —...

...head lieth." —Raleigh. " My days are past as a shadow that returns not." — R. Hooker. " I pray you see me safe up, and for my coming down let me shift for myself." — Sir Thomas More on the scaffold. " Precious salvation." — Sir J. Stonehouse. "In me behold the...

...More turned to the Lieutenant of the Tower, and with a gleam of his old humour said, ' I pray thee, see me safe up, and for my coming down let me shift for myself.' Then he begged all the people to pray for him, and bade them bear witness with him that he should there...

...very unsteady, and putting his feet on the ladder, he said merrily to the lieutenant : " I pray thee see me safe up, and for my coming down let me shift for myself". "Then desired he all the people to pray for him and to bear witness with him that he should there suffer...

...it was ready to fall, he said to Master Lieutenant — ' I pray you, I pray you, Master Lieutenant, see me safe up, and for my coming down let me shift for myself.' Then desired he all the people thereabouts to pray for him, and to bear witness with him that he should...

...and imprisonment. Turning to the lieutenant of the Tower, whoaccompanied him, he said: " I pray thee see me safe up, and for my coming down let me shift for myself". Levity ! Say rather the elasticity of a heavenly heart, as the weary feet began to mount the ladder...

...in Roper's " Life of More," " he said hurriedly to the lieutenant, ' I pray you, Master Lieutenant, see me safe up ; and for my coming down, let me shift for myself.' When the axe of the executioner was about to fall, he asked for a moment's delay while he moved aside...

...Tower. " Master Lieutenant," he said, perhaps with a kindly intention to cheer his friend, " I pray you see me safe up, and for my coming down let me shift for myself." The executioner begged his forgiveness. " Thou art about to do me," said More, " a greater service...

...scaffold, too, brought out the quaint humour of Sir Thomas More. At its foot he said, '; I pray you see me safe up, and for my coming down let me shift for myself." The poet Hood would have his little joke, as follows, even though he were never to speak again : "...