 | James Osborne Putnam - 1855 - 12 pages
...might lay down his weary bones and die, should exclaim in view of his fall, - O Cromwell, Cromwell, Had I but served my God, with half the zeal I served my King-, lie would not in mine age, Have left me, naked, to mine enemies. It is the history of the Church in... | |
 | John Stevens Cabot Abbott - 1855 - 358 pages
...He might truly have said with Cardinal Wolsey, Neglect and disappointment. Letter to the emperor. " 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." Cortez soon found himself neglected and... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - 1855 - 460 pages
...riveted intently on the speaker's face. As for the deacon, he might have said, with Shakspejire's Wolsey, "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." His fall was not that of a loss of... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1856 - 800 pages
...king's; my robe, And my integrity to heaven, is all I dare now call mine 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. 2 Crom. Good sir, have patience. WoL So... | |
 | William Sherwood - 1856 - 466 pages
...King's ; my robe, And my integrity to Heaven, is all I dare now call mine 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 rue naked to mine enemies ! 4. MAUCELLUS TO THE ROMAN POPULACE.... | |
 | Charles Northend - 1856 - 276 pages
...which, though paruy imaginary, yet speaks the language of reality. The ruined cardinal says : — " Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my king, he would not in my age Have left me naked to mine enemies." It was the heart of the courtier which... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Post Office and Civil Service - 1973 - 86 pages
...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."... | |
 | Ernest Wood - 1989 - 216 pages
...experience to make him pay attention. There are few people who repent of their folly without this lesson. " 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," said Wolsey, and his method of learning... | |
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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. 
