 | 1841 - 752 pàgines
...truth's; then, if thou fallest, O Cromwell, Thou fall'st a blessed martyr.—Serve the king, And—Prithee lead me in :— There, take an inventory of all I...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... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1841 - 768 pàgines
...then, if thou fallest, O Cromwell, Thou fall'st a blessed martyr. — Serve the king, And — Prithee lead me in : — There, take an inventory of all I...And my integrity to heaven is all I dare now call my own. O Cromwell, Cromwell, Had I hut served my God with half the zeal I served my king, he would... | |
 | Paul R. Clancy - 1974 - 338 pàgines
...lunchtime instead of half a century earlier. Cardinal Wolsey could have been speaking of Nixon when he said Had I but serv'd my God with half the zeal I serv'd my king, he would not in mine age Have left me naked to mine enemies. Ervin always had a bit of folklore, a story, a line of poetry,... | |
 | Herbert Lockyer - 1988 - 372 pàgines
...God" (Psalm 40:8; John 8: 29; Hebrews 10:9). In King Henry VIII, Shakespeare makes Cardinal Wolsey say Had I but serv'd my God with half the zeal I serv'd my king, he would not in mine age Have left me naked to mine enemies. Our blessed Lord served God with all His xeal, and was never... | |
 | Charles Harlen Shattuck - 1976 - 360 pàgines
...elocution was "beautifully simple" until he came to the lines at the end of the Farewell Scene: О Cromwell, Cromwell, Had I but serv'd my God with half the zeal I serv'd my king. He would not in mine age Have left me naked ю mine enemies. "This he delivers in his worst manner—or his best. Which... | |
 | Jerry Blunt - 1990 - 232 pàgines
...truth's. Then if thou fall'st, O Cromwell, Thou fall'st a blessed martyr. Serve the king; And — prithee, lead me in: There take an inventory of all I have,...half the zeal I serv'd my king, he would not in mine age Have left me naked to mine enemies. The TVagedies (Presented in the order in which Shakespeare... | |
 | Stanley Wells - 2002 - 296 pàgines
...(3.1.100-1). Wolsey, on the other hand, closes his 'farewell' speech to Cromwell with the famous lines: Had I but serv'd my God with half the zeal I serv'd my king, he would not in mine age Have left me naked to mine enemies. (3.2.455-7) Wolsey blames his downfall on his inability to... | |
 | Suzy Platt - 1992 - 550 pàgines
...a clergyman who said to Lincoln that he hoped "the Lord was on our side." See note at No. 731. 705 Had I but serv'd my God with half the zeal I serv'd my king, He would not in mine age Have left me naked to mine enemies. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Henry VIII, act II, scene ii, lines 455-57.... | |
 | Jonathan Dollimore, Alan Sinfield - 1994 - 308 pàgines
...last words by acknowledging Henry as the source of all earthly power: Serve the King, and — prithee lead me in. There take an inventory of all I have,...And my integrity to heaven, is all I dare now call my own. ( II1.ii.450-4) This is the triumph of the hagiographical theme: to locate the essence of the... | |
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... honesty. Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace, To silence envious tongues : be just, and fear not. Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's, Thy God's, and truth's : then, if thou fall'st, O Cromwell ! Thou fall'st a blessed martyr. 
