 | Anna Randall Diehl - Readers - 1883 - 422 pages
...forgiveness. More kissed him. " Thou art to do me the greatest benefit that I can receive," he said. " Pluck up thy spirit, man, and be not afraid to do...short; take heed, therefore, that thou strike not awry for saving of thine honesty." The executioner offered to tie his eyes. " I will cover them myself,"... | |
 | Griffith, Farran, Browne and co - 1883 - 328 pages
...forgiveness. More kissed him. "Thou art to do me the greatest benefit that I can receive,' he said. 'Pluck up thy spirit, man, and be not afraid to do...very short. Take heed therefore that thou strike not awry for saving of thine honesty.' The executioner offered to tie his eyes. 'I will cover them myself,'... | |
 | Louise Creighton - Great Britain - 1883 - 382 pages
...ever any mortal man can be able to give me ; pluck up thy spirit, man, and be not afraid to do thy office ; my neck is very short ; take heed therefore that thou strike not awry for saving thy honesty." The executioner offered to cover his eyes, but he said, "I will cover... | |
 | John Fletcher Hurst - Reformation - 1884 - 146 pages
...After kissing his executioner, he said, " Thou art to do me the greatest benefit that I can receive; pluck up thy spirit, man, and be not afraid to do...short; take heed, therefore, that thou strike not awry, for saving of thine honesty." 7. Cranmer was, of all men of his time, most powerful in hastening... | |
 | Samuel Rawson Gardiner - Great Britain - 1884 - 264 pages
...kneeled down to pray. Then rising, he turned to the executioner. ' Pluck up thy spirits, man,' he said, ' and be not afraid to do thine office. My neck is very short ; take heed that thou cut not awry.' He then bound a cloth over his eyes, and, again kneeling down, placed his... | |
 | Mary Wilson - 1884 - 228 pages
...an angel of gold to the executioner, saying, " Pluck up thy spirit, man, and be not afraid to do thy office. My neck is very short ; take heed, therefore, that thou strike not awry, for saving thy honesty." The executioner then asked his forgiveness ; to which he replied, "... | |
 | Blanche Wilder Bellamy, Maud Wilder Goodwin - Readers - 1890 - 410 pages
...forgiveness. More kissed him. " Thou art to do me the greatest benefit that I can receive," he said. " Pluck up thy spirit, man, and be not afraid to do...short ; take heed, therefore, that thou strike not awry for saving of thine honesty." The executioner offered to tie his eyes. "I will cover them myself,"... | |
 | George Rhett Cathcart - American literature - 1892 - 572 pages
...forgiveness. More kissed him. "Thou art to do me the greatest benefit that I can receive," he said. " Pluck up thy spirit, man, and be not afraid to do...short. Take heed, therefore, that thou strike not awry for saving of thine honesty." The executioner offered to tie his eyes. "I will cover them myself,"... | |
 | World history - 1887 - 832 pages
...forgiveness. "Friend," said More, kissing him, "thou art to do me the greatest benefit that I can receive. Pluck up thy spirit, man, and be not afraid to do...short; take heed, therefore, that thou strike not awry for saving of thine honesty." After laying his head on the block, he moved aside his beard, remarking,... | |
 | Henry de Beltgens Gibbins - History - 1892 - 266 pages
...turned to the executioner, and with a cheerful countenance spake unto him — ' Pluck up thy spirits, man, and be not afraid to do thine office, my neck is very short. Take heed therefore thou strike not awry for saving thine honesty.' So passed Sir Thomas More out of this world to God,... | |
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Pluck up thy spirit, man, and be not afraid to do thine office. My neck is very short. Take heed therefore that thou strike not awry for saving of thine honesty. 
