 | William Roper - 1822 - 262 pages
...pleasure. For by God's body, Master More, Indignatio principis mars est. Is that all, my lord, quoth he? Then in good faith the difference between your grace and me ,/ is but this, that / shall die to day and you tomorrow. So fell it out, within a month, or thereabout, after the... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1896 - 616 pages
...for, by God's body, Master More, indignatio principis mors est." " Is that• all, my lord?" quoth he; "then, in good faith, the difference between your grace and me is but this — that I shall die to-day, and you to-morrow." ' The Act of Succession provided that all subjects... | |
 | Mrs. A. T. Thomson - 1826 - 742 pages
...favourite oath with the Duke,) indignatio principis mors est." " Is that all, my lord ?" replied More ; " then in good faith the difference between your grace and me is but this, that I shall die to-day, and you tomorrow."* A reply approaching much more nearly to prophecy, than... | |
 | 1850 - 896 pages
...mort est.' " " And is that all, my lord?" replied this man, so much above all paltry considerations; "then in good faith the difference between your grace and me is but this — that I may die to-day, and you to-morrow." He took great delight in beautifying Chelsea Church,... | |
 | Biographical magazine - 1853 - 586 pages
...perilous striving with princes." "Indignatio principis mors est." "Is that all my lord," he replied "then, in good faith, the difference between your grace and me, is only this, — that I shall die today, and you to-morrow." Well he knew the hollow of the block would... | |
 | Mrs. S. C. Hall - 1854 - 608 pages
...est." ' And is that all, my lord ? ' replied this man, so much above all paltry considerations ; ' then in good faith the difference between your Grace and me is hut this — that I may die to day, and you to-morrow.' He took great delight in beautifying Chelsea... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1855 - 586 pages
...mors est.'" "And is that all. my lord ?" replied this man, so much above all paltry considerations; "then in good faith the difference between your grace and me is but this — that I may die to-day, and you to-morrow." He took great delight in beautifying Chelsea Church,... | |
 | 1867 - 880 pages
...More, ' indignatio principis more eat.'" We can imagine the sweet smile with which More answered. li Is that all, my lord ? then in good faith the difference between your grace and me is but this, that I shall die to-day and you to-morrow." He was too brave and merry not to despise death ; but.... | |
 | Edward Payson Tenney - 1876 - 166 pages
...ourselves shall follow before nightfall. When Sir Thomas More was threatened with death, he answered, " Is that all, my lord ? Then, in good faith, the difference between your Grace and me is but this, — that I shall die to-day, and you to-morrow." When Saadi met a man in Damascus, who was dying at... | |
 | Thomas Edward Bridgett - 1888 - 628 pages
...king is death to man ".* When this same word was quoted by the Duke of Norfolk to Sir Thomas More, he replied : " Is that all, my lord ? Then in good faith...difference between your grace and me is but this, that I shall die to-day and you to-morrow." f The same thoughts must have been also in Fisher's mind.... | |
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More, it is perilous striving with princes, therefore I would wish you somewhat to incline to the King's pleasure. For by God's body, Master More, Indignatio principis mors est." " Is that all, my lord? ", quoth he. " Then in good faith the difference... 
