...which myfelf can beft witnefs; unto whom in his ficknels he ufed this fpeech; " Eafe, and pleafure quake to hear of death ; but my life full of cares, and miferies, defireth to be difiblved." My moft humble, and only fuit is, that your Majelly will not fuffer...

...fit time, to be solemnized." d He said to Sir Walter Cope, in his last illness, " Ease and pleasure quake to hear of death ; but my life, full of cares and miseries, desireth to be dissolved." * As early as 1603, he had written to Sir John Harington, the poet : " Good Knight, rest content, and...

...correspondence, * He encountered death with the most philosophical tranquillity. " Ease and pleasure," said he, " quake to hear of death; but my life, full of cares and miseries, desireth to be dissolved." f A royal manor, which the King had given him in exchange for Theobalds. He built the magnificent house...

...correspondence, * He encountered death with the most philosophical tranquillity. " Ease and pleasure," said he, " quake to hear of death ; but my life, full of cares and miseries, desireth to be dissolved." which he carried on with the Scottish King prior to Elizabeth's death, he justified by it's effect...

...met death with a philosophical tranquillity. " Ease and pleasure," said he, in his last illness, " quake to hear of death ; but my life, full of cares and miseries, desireth to be dissolved." He was the author of a work against the Roman catholics, of several letters, despatches, ami parliamentary...

...dying minister, * Aubrey's MSS. Oxford Ed. of Ralegh's Works, 663. f Biograph. J Winwood, iii. 467. " quake to hear of death ; but my life, full of cares and miseries, desireth to be dissolved." " In his latter moments, retaining all the collectedness and tenacity of memory for which he was remarkable,...

...February, 1611-12. In bis last illness, he wad heard to say to Sir Walter Cope, " Ease and pleasure quake to hear of death ; but my life, full of cares and miseries, desireth to !> - dissolved." He had some years previously (1003) addressed a letter to Sir John Harrington, the...

...sex. His dying commentary on his life is full of sad reflection : — " Ease and pleasure," says he, " quake to hear of death, but my life, full of cares and miseries, desireth to be dissolved." t The government hitherto in this reign was managed by a capable and expert minister. It now becomes...

...over many a formidable rival. In his last moments he said to Sir Walter Cope, — " Ease and pleasure quake to hear of death ; but my life, full of cares and miseries, desireth to be dissolved." His death was certainly not less welcome to the great mass of the nation ; but, in the worse that followed,...

...thus addressed Sir Walter Cope, one of his most favourite and intimate servants : " Ease and pleasure quake to hear of death ; but my life, full of cares and miseries, desireth to be dissolved,"t — a sentence which might be a warning to ambition, if such were ever heeded. The death...