Chapter Dwile to Dyzemas Day of D by Brewer's Phrase & Fable

man." (Said to the German who assassinated him.)
COLUMBUS: "Lord, into Thy hands I commend my spirit." (See Charlemagne and Tasso.)
CONDE (Duc d'Enghien): "I die for my king and for France." (Shot by order of Napoleon I. in 1804.)
COPERNICUS: "Now, O Lord, set thy servant free." (See Luke ii. 29.)
CORDAY (Charlotte): "One man have I slain to save a hundred thousand."
CRANMER (Archbishop of Canterbury): "That unworthy hand! That unworthy hand!" (This he said, according to a popular tradition, as he held in the flames his right hand which had signed his apostasy.)
CROMBE (John): "O Hobbema, Hobbema, how I do love thee!"
CROMWELL: "My design is to make what haste I can to be gone."
CUVIER: (to the nurse who was applying leeches). "Nurse, it was I who discovered that leeches have red blood."
DANTON (to the executioner): "Be sure you show the mob my head. It will be a long time ere they see its like."
DEMONAX (the philosopher): "You may go home, the show is over" (Lucian). (See Rabelais, and below.)
DERBY (Earl of): "Douglas, I would give all my lands to save thee."
DICKENS (said in reply to his sister-in-law, who urged him to lie down): "Yes, on the ground."
DIDEROT: "The first step towards philosophy is incredulity."
DIOGENES (requested that his body should be buried, and when his friends said that his body would be torn to pieces he replied): "Quid mihi nocebunt ferarum dentes nihil sentienti."
DOUGLAS (Earl): "Fight on, my merry men."
EDWARDS (Jonathan): "Trust in God, and you need not fear."
ELDON (Lord): "It matters not where I am going whether the weather be cold or hot."
ELIZABETH (Queen): "All my possessions for a moment of time."
ELIZABETH (sister of Louis XVI., on her way to the guillotine, when her kerchief fell from her neck): "I pray you, gentlemen, in the name of modesty, suffer me to cover my bosom."
ELPHEGE (Archbishop of Canterbury): "You urge me in vain. I am not the man to provide Christian flesh for Pagan teeth, by robbing my flock to enrich their enemy."
EPAMINONDAS (wounded; on being told that the Thebans were victorious): "Then I die happy." (See Wolfe.), and see below.
ETTY: "Wonderful! Wonderful this death!"
EULER: "I am dying."
FARR (M.D.): "Lord, receive my spirit."
FELTON (John): "I am the man" (i.e. who shot the Duke of Buckingham).
FONTENELLE: "I suffer nothing, but I feel a sort of difficulty of living longer."
FRANKLIN: "A dying man can do nothing easily."
FREDERICK V. (of Denmark): "There is not a drop of blood on my hands." (See Pericles.), and see below.
GAINSBOROUGH: "We are all going to heaven, and Vandyke is of the company."
GARRICK: "Oh, dear!"
GASTON DE FOIX (called "Phoebus" for his beauty): "I am a dead man! Lord, have mercy upon me!"
GEORGE IV.: "Watty, what is this? It is death, my boy. They have deceived me." (Said to his page, Sir Wathen Waller.)
GIBBON: "Mon Dieu! Mon Dieu!"
GOETHE: "More light."
GOLDSMITH: "No, it is not." (Said in reply to Dr. Turton, who asked him if his mind was at ease.)
GRANT (General): "I want nobody distressed on my account."
GREGORY VII.: "I have loved justice and hated iniquity, therefore I die in exile." (He had embroiled himself with Heinrich IV., the Kaiser, and had retired to Salerno.)
GREY (Lady Jane): "Lord, into Thy hands I commend my spirit." (See Charlemagne.), and see above.
GROTIUS: "Be serious."
GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS: "My God!"
HALLER: "My friend, the pulse has ceased to beat." (This was said to his medical attendant.)
HANNIBAL: "Let us now relieve the Romans of their fears by the death of a feeble old man."
HARRISON (W.H.): "I wish you to understand the true principles of government. I wish them carried out, and ask nothing more."
HAYDN died singing "God preserve the emperor!"
HAZLITT: "I have led a happy life."
HENRY II. (of England). "Now let the world go as it will; I care for nothing more." (This he said when he was told that his favourite son John was one of those who were conspiring against him. (Shakespeare makes Macbeth say.

"I 'gin to be a weary of the sun,
And wish th' estate o' the world were now undone."

HENRY III. "I am Harry of Winchester." (These can hardly be called his dying words, but only the last recorded. They were spoken on the field of battle when a man was about to slay him. The battle of Evesham was fought August 4th, 1265, but Henry III. died November 16th, 1272.)
HENRY VII.: "We heartily desire our executors to consider how behoofful it is to be prayed for."
HENRY VIII.: "All is lost! Monks, monks, monks!"
HENRY (Prince): "Tie a rope round my body, pull me out of bed, and lay me in ashes, that I may die with repentant prayers to an offended God."
HERBERT (George): "Now, Lord, receive my soul."
HOBBES: "Now I am about to take my last voyage - a great leap in the dark."
HOFER (Andreas): "I will not kneel. Fire!" (Spoken to the soldiers commissioned to shoot him.)
HOOD: "Dying, dying."
HOOPER: "Lord, receive my spirit."
HUMBOLDT: "How grand these rays! They seem to beckon earth to heaven."
HUNTER (Dr. William): "If I had strength to hold a pen, I would write down how easy and pleasant a thing it is to die."
IRVING (Edward): "If I die, I die unto the Lord. Amen."
JACKSON (surnamed "Stonewall"): "Send Hill to the front."
JAMES V. (of Scotland): "It [the crown of Scotland] came with a lass and will go with a lass." (This he said when told