 | 1839 - 496 pages
...seeking human favour. He said to his attendants, " If I had served God as diligently as I have done the king, he would not have given me over in my grey hairs. But this is the just reward that I must receive for my diligent pains and study, that I have had to do him service ; not regarding... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1839 - 932 pages
...persuade him from his appetite, and could not prevail. And, Master Kingston, this I will say — had I but served God as diligently as I have served the king, he would not have given me over iu my grey hairs. Howbeit this is my just reward for my pains and diligence, not regarding my service... | |
 | Royal Robbins - 1839 - 754 pages
...soon afterwards, uttering in the anguish of his soul, the never to be forgotten words, " Had I but served God as diligently as I have served the king, he would not have forsaken me in my gray hairs." Anne Boieyn, in less than three years, was condemned and beheaded. After... | |
 | 1839 - 454 pages
...him, and then it was that he was heard to say, "If I had served my God as diligently as I have done the king, he would not have given me over in my grey hairs." And these were among his last words, for at eight o'clock that same night the poor cardinal expired.... | |
 | Henry Laurens, David R. Chesnutt, C. James Taylor - 2003 - 978 pages
...recorded the cardinal's dying comments, including: "If I had served (lod as diligently as I have done the king, he would not have given me over in my grey hairs. "George Cavendish, The I jfe and Death ofCj1r. dinalWolay (Boston and New York. 1905), p. 182. SOURCE:... | |
 | Herbert Lockyer - 244 pages
...deathbed. As he lay dying, he is reported to have said: "If I had served God as diligently as I have done the king, He would not have given me over in my grey hairs. But this is the just reward that I must receive for my diligent pains and studies that I have had to do him service, and not regarding... | |
 | Herbert Lockyer - 1988 - 372 pages
...with me"? Cavendish, in his Negotiations of Thomas Wolsey, quotes the Cardinal's own words - "Had I served God as diligently as I have served the King he would not have given me over in my gray hairs." How different the heavenly King treated His chosen Servant! Matthew's record of Christ's... | |
 | Leo F. Solt - 1990 - 285 pages
...Westminster to attend the court. On his deathbed he opined, "If I had served God as diligently as I have done the king, he would not have given me over in my grey hairs."18 There seems to be very little doubt from all of the evidence that Catherine was still a virgin... | |
 | John Beadle, Germaine Fry Murray - 1996 - 390 pages
...negotiations of Thomas Woolsey (London, 1641; Wing STC C1619), sig. Fir: "And master Kingston, had I but served God as diligently as I have served the King, he would not have given me over in my gray haires." Also, see The Life and Death of Thomas Wolsey, ed. Richard S. Sylvester (Oxford: EETS,... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1997 - 666 pages
...Shakespeare's main sources, where they appear in the form, "If I had served God as diligently as I have done the King, He would not have given me over in my grey hairs." Luck 2 That is no use at all. What I want is men who will support me when I am in the wrong. WILLIAM... | |
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Had I but served God as diligently as I have served the king, He would not have given me over in my grey hairs. 
