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" I have eaten his bread and served him near thirty years, and will not do so base a thing as to forsake him... "
The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal - Page 416
1892
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The History of England, Volume 2

Thomas Keightley - Great Britain - 1839 - 568 pages
...would yield and consent to what they desire; so that my conscience is only concerned in honour and in gratitude to follow my master. I have eaten his bread,...served him near thirty years, and will not do so base a tiling as to forsake him ; and choose rather to lose my life (which I am sure I shall do), to preserve...
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Memoirs of prince Rupert and the Cavaliers including their private ..., Volume 1

Bartholomew Elliott G. Warburton - 1849 - 588 pages
...would yield and consent to what they desire ; so that my conscience is only concerned in honour and in gratitude to follow my master. I have eaten his bread,...forsake him, and choose rather to lose my life (which 1 am sure I shall do) to preserve and defend those things, which are against my conscience to preserve...
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Notes and Queries, Volume 198

Electronic journals - 1953 - 604 pages
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King and Commonwealth, a history of the Great rebellion [by B.M. Gardiner ...

Bertha Meriton Gardiner - Great Britain - 1874 - 404 pages
...king ought not to grant what they desire. I have eaten my master's bread, and served him near these thirty years, and will not do so base a thing as to forsake him, but for my part I do not like the quarrel, and wish he would yield."t Sir "William Waller, one of the...
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King and Commonwealth: A History of Charles I. and the Great Rebellion

Bertha Meriton Cordery Gardiner, James Surtees Phillpotts, B. Cordery (Meriton) - Great Britain - 1876 - 420 pages
...king ought not to grant what they desire. I have eaten my master's bread, and served him near these thirty years, and will not do so base a thing as to forsake him, but for my part I do not like the quarrel, and wish he would yield."t Sir William Waller, one of the...
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The Pythouse papers: correspondence concerning the Civil war [&c.] transcr ...

Pythouse papers - 1879 - 222 pages
...would yield and consent to what they desire ; so that my conscience is only concerned in honour and in gratitude to follow my master. I have eaten his bread, and served him thirty years, and will not do so base a thing as to forsake him, and choose rather to lose my life...
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The Pythouse Papers: Correspondence Concerning the Civil War: The Popish ...

William Ansell Day - Great Britain - 1879 - 222 pages
...would yield and consent to what they desire ; so that my conscience is only concerned in honour and in gratitude to follow my master. I have eaten his bread, and served him thirty years, and will not do so base a thing as to forsake him, and choose rather to lose my life...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 169

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1889 - 604 pages
...prejudice in favour of obedience was very strong. ' I have eaten the King's bread, and served him for near thirty years, and will not do so base a thing as to forsake him.' * ' I beseech you to consider that Majesty is sacred. God saith, " Touch not Mine Anointed." 'f ' Sure...
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The History of the Granville Family: Traced Back to Rollo, First Duke of ...

Roger Granville - England - 1895 - 632 pages
...would yield and consent to what they desire, so that my conscience is only concerned in honour and in gratitude to follow my master. I have eaten his bread...thirty years, and will not do so base a thing as to foresake him, and choose rather to lose my life — which I am sure to do — to preserve and defend...
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Social Life Under the Stuarts

Elizabeth Godfrey - Great Britain - 1904 - 350 pages
...and consent ' " to what They desire ; so that my Conscience is only ' " concerned in Honour and in Gratitude to follow my ' " Master. I have eaten his...not do so base a Thing ' " as to forsake him ; and chuse rather to lose my Life ' " (which I am sure I shall do) to preserve and defend ' " those Things...
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