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

that the queen had given birth to a daughter - the future Mary Queen of Scots.)
JEFFERSON (of America): "I resign my spirit to God, my daughter to my country."
JEROME (of Prague): "Thou knowest, Lord, that I have loved the truth."
JESUS (See Christ).
JOAN OF ARC: "Jesus! Jesus! Jesus! Blessed be God."
JOHNSON (Dr.): "God bless you, my dear" (to Miss Morris).
JOSEPHINE (the divorced wife of Napoleon I.) "L'ile d'Elbe! Napoleon!"
JULIAN (called the "Apostate"): "Vicisti, O Galileë."
KEATS: "I feel the flowers growing over me."
KEN (Bishop): "God's will be done."
KNOX: "Now it is come."
LAMB (Charles): "My bed-fellows are cramp and cough - we three all in one bed."
LAMBERT (the Martyr): "None but Christ! None but Christ!" (This he said as he was pitched into the flames.)
LAVOISIER, being condemned to die, asked for a respite of two weeks that he might complete some experiments in which he was engaged. He was told that the Republic was in no need of experiments. (See above, Archimedes.)
LAWRENCE (St.) Said to have been broiled alive on a gridiron, A.D. 258.

"This side enough is toasted, so turn me, tyrant, eat,
And see whether raw or roasted I make the better meat."
Foxe: Book of Martyrs.

LAWRENCE (Com. James): "Don't give up the ship." (Mortally wounded on the Chesapeake.)
LEICESTER (Earl of): "By the arm of St. James, it is time to die."
LEOPOLD I. (the Kaiser): "Let me die to the sound of sweet music." (See Mirabeau.)
LISLE (Sir George): "Ay! but I have been nearer to you, my friends, many a time, and you have missed me."
LOCKE (John): "Oh! the depth of the riches of the goodness and knowledge of God. Cease now." (This was said to Lady Masham, who was reading to him some of the Psalms.)
LOUIS I.: "Huz! huz!" (Bouquet says, "He turned his face to the wall, twice cried huz! huz! [out; out!] and then died.)
LOUIS IX.: "I will enter now into the house of the Lord."
LOUIS XI.: "Notre dame d'Embrun, ma bonne maitresse, aidez moi."
LOUIS XIV.: "Why weep you? Did you think I should live for ever? I thought dying had been harder."
LOUIS XVI. (on the scaffold): "Frenchmen, I die guiltless of the crimes imputed to me. Pray God my blood fall not on France!"
LOUIS XVIII.: "A king should die standing." (See Vespasian and Siward.)
MADISON (James): "I always talk better lying down."
MAHOMET or MOHAMMED: "O Allah! be it so! Henceforth among the glorious host of Paradise."
MALESHERBES (to the priest): "Hold your tongue! your wretched chatter disgusts me."
MARAT (stabbed in his bath by Charlotte Corday): "Help! help me, my dear!" (To his housekeeper.)
MARGARET (of Scotland, wife of Louis XI. of France): "Fi de la vie! qu'on ne m'en parle plus."
MARIE ANTOINETTE: "Farewell, my children, for ever. I am going to your father."
MARTIN (St.): "What dost thou here, thou cruel beast?" (Said to the devil). (St. Sulpicius: Epistle to Bassula.)
MARTINUZZI (Cardinal), the Wolsey of Hungary. He was assassinated uttering the words, "Jesu, Maria!"
MARY (Queen of England): "You will find the word Calais written on my heart."
MASANIELLO: "Ungrateful traitors!" (To his assassins.)
MATHEWS (Charles): "I am ready."
MAXIMILLIAN (Emperor of Mexico): "Poor Carlotta!" (Referring to his wife.)
MELANCTHON (in reply to the question, "Do you want anything?"): "Nothing but heaven."
MIRABEAU: "Let me fall asleep to the sound of delicious music." (See Leopold.)
MONICA (St.): "In peace I will sleep with Him and take my rest." (St. Augustin: Confessions.)
MOODY (the actor):

"Reason thus with life:
If I do lose thee, I do lose a thing
That none but fools would keep."

(The same is said of Paterson, an actor in the Norwich Company.)
MOORE (Hannah): "Patty, Joy."
MOORE (Sir John): "I hope my country will do me justice."
MORE (Sir Thomas): "For my coming down, let me shift for myself."
MOZART: "You spoke of a refreshment, Emilie; take my last notes, and let me hear once more my solace and delight."
MURAT (King of Naples): "Soldiers, save my face; aim at my heart. Farewell." (Said to the men appointed to shoot him.)
NAPOLEON I.: "Mon Dieu! La nation Francaise. Tête d'armée!"
NAPOLEON III.: "Were you at Sedan?" (To Dr Conneau.)
NELSON: "I thank God I have done my duty. Kiss me, Hardy."
NERO: "Qualis artifex perio."
PALMER (the actor): "There is another and a better world." (This he said on the stage. It is a line in the part he was performing - The Stranger.)
PASCAL: "My God, forsake me not."
PERICLES (of Athens): "I have never caused any citizen to put on mourning on my account." (See FREDERICK V.)
PITT (William): "Alas, my country!"
PIZARRO: "Jesu!"
POMPADOUR (Mdme. de): "Stay a little longer, M. le Curé, and we will go together."
PONIATOWSKI (after the bridge over the Pliesse was blown up): "Gentlemen, it behoves us now to die with honour."
POPE: "Friendship itself is but a part of virtue."
RABELAIS: "Let down the curtain, the farce is over." (See Demonax.)
RALEIGH: "It matters little how the head lies." (Said on the scaffold where he was beheaded.)
RENAN: "We perish, we disappear, but the march of time goes on for ever."
RICHARD I. (of England): "Youth, I forgive thee!" (This was said to Bertrand de Gourdon, who shot him with an arrow at Chalus.) Then to his attendants he added, "Take off his chains, give him 100 shillings, and let him go."
RICHARD III. (of England): "Treason!