 | George Lillie Craik - Great Britain - 1841 - 638 pages
...to 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 in my grey hairs. Howbeit this is my just reward for my pains and diligence, not regarding... | |
 | Mary Bowley - 1842 - 538 pages
...the lieutenant of the Tower, who had him under his care, " Ah ! 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 in my grey hairs. Howbeit, this is my just reward for my pains and diligence, not regarding... | |
 | William Grimshaw - Great Britain - 1843 - 348 pages
...stop at Leicester Abbey ; where, he shortly afterwards expired. On his death be'd, he exclaimed, " Had I but served God, as diligently as I have served the king, he would not have deserted me in my grey hairs." „„ In the autumn of this year, the new queen had a ' davghter, called... | |
 | Royal Robbins - History - 1844 - 732 pages
...the executioner. Cardinal Wolsey also, was conceived to be in the way of the king's wishes on tVie subject of his marriage, and after being deprived...; and the third having been executed for adultery. Th^fourth. survived him. The tyrant died in the fifty-sixth year of his age, bequeathing his crown,... | |
 | 1844 - 320 pages
...uttered by Wolsey on his death-bed. They were addressed to Sir William Kingston : — " Master Kingston, had I but served God as diligently as I have served 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... | |
 | Friedrich Christoph Dahlmann - Great Britain - 1844 - 360 pages
...and the disgrace of repeated accusations, but little more than a year. On his death-bed he said, " Had I but served God as diligently as I have served the king, he would not have given me over in my grey i530- hairs." He died on the 29th of November, 1530. Christ Church College,... | |
 | World history - 1844 - 588 pages
...him, at once to guard and attend him, he spoke to him a little before he expired, to this effect: " Had I but served God as diligently as I have served the king, he would not have given me over in my gray hairs. But this is the just reward I must receive for my indulgent pains and... | |
 | Jane Marcet - 1844 - 122 pages
...would never have said those remarkable words on his death-bed, — ' If I had served God as faithfully as I have served the King, he would not have forsaken me in my last days.' " " I cannot help thinking," observed Mrs. B., " that Wolsey served the King no better... | |
 | 1863 - 518 pages
...hours before his death he exclaimed in accents of agony : " Had I served my God with the same zeal that I have served the King, he would not have forsaken me in my old age." The history of Wolsey exhibits in the most striking degree the vicissitudes of fortune and... | |
 | Authors - 1845 - 762 pages
...to 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 in my grey hairs. Howbeit, this is my just reward for my pains and diligence, not regarding... | |
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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. 
