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

treason!" (At Bosworth, where his best men deserted him and joined the army of Richmond, afterwards Henry VII.)
ROBESPIERRE (taunted with the death of Danton): "Cowards! Why did you not defend him?" (This must have been before his jaw was broken by the shot of the gendarme the day before he was guillotined.)
ROCHEJAQUELEIN (the Vendean hero): "We go to meet the foe. If I advance, follow me; if I retreat, slay me; if I fall, avenge me."
ROLAND (Madame): "O liberty! What crimes are committed in thy name!"
SALADIN: "When I am buried, carry my winding-sheet on the point of a spear, and say these words: Behold the spoils which Saladin carries with him! Of all his victories, realms, and riches, nothing remains to him but this." (See Severus.), and see below.
SAND (George): "Laissez la verdure." (That is, leave the plot green, and do not cover the grave with bricks or stone.)
SCARRON: "Ah, my children, you cannot cry for me so much as I have made you laugh."
SCHILLER: "Many things are growing plain and clear to my understanding."
SCOTT (Sir Walter): "God bless you all. I feel myself again." (To his family.)
SERVETUS (at the stake): "Christ, Son of the eternal God, have mercy upon me." (Calvin insisted on his saying, "the eternal Son of God," but he would not, and was burnt to death.)
SEVERUS: "I have been everything, and everything is nothing. A little urn will contain all that remains of one for whom the whole world was too little." (See Saladin.)
SEYMOUR (Jane): "No, my head never committed any treason; but, if you want it, you can take it." (As Jane Seymour died within a fortnight of the birth of her son Edward - the cause of unbounded delight to the king - I cannot believe that this traditionary speech is correct.)
SHARPE (Archbishop): "I shall be happy."
SHERIDAN: "I am absolutely undone."
SIDNEY (Algernon): "I know that my Redeemer liveth. I die for the good old cause." (He was condemned to death by Judge Jeffries as an accomplice in the Rye House plot.)
SIDNEY (Sir Philip): "I would not change my joy for the empire of the world."
SIWARD (the Dane): "Lift me up that I may die standing, not lying down like a cow." (See Louis XVIII, and Vespasian.)
SOCRATES: "Crito, we owe a cock to Æsculapios."
STAEL (Madame de): "I have loved God, my father, and liberty."
STEPHEN (the first Christian martyr): "Lord, into thy hands I commend my spirit."
SWEDENBORG: "What o'clock is it?" (After being told, he added). "Thank you, and God bless you."
TALMA: "The worst is, I cannot see." (But his last word was) "Voltaire."
TASSO: "Lord, into Thy hands I commend my spirit." (See Charlemagne, and Columbus.), and above
TAYLOR (General Zachary): "I have tried to do my duty, and am not afraid to die. I am ready."
TENTERDEN (Lord Chief Justice): "Gentlemen of the jury, you may retire."
THERAMENES (the Athenian, condemned by Critias to drink hemlock, said as he drank the poison): "This to the fair Critias."
THIEF (The Penitent): "Lord, remember me when Thou comest into Thy Kingdom."
THURLOW (Lord): "I'll be shot if I don't believe I'm dying."
TYLER (Wat): "Because they are all under my command, they are sworn to do what I bid them."
VANE (Sir Harry): "It is a bad cause which cannot bear the words of a dying man."
VESPASIAN: "A king should die standing" (See Louis XVIII. and Siward); but his last words were, "Ut puto, deus fio" (referring to the fact that he was the first of the Roman emperors who died a natural death, if, indeed, Augustus was poisoned, as many suppose).
VICARS (Hedley): "Cover my face."
VOLTAIRE: "Do let me die in peace."
WASHINGTON: "It is well. I die hard, but am not afraid to go."
WESLEY: "The best of all is, God is with us."
WILBERFORCE (His father said to him, "So He giveth His beloved sleep"; to which Wilberforce replied): "Yes, and sweet indeed is the rest which Christ giveth." (Saying this, he never spoke again.)
WILLIAM I.: "To my Lady, the Holy Mary, I commend myself; that she, by her prayers, may reconcile her beloved Son to me."
WILLIAM II.: "Shoot, Walter, in the devil's name!" (Walter Tyrrell did shoot, but killed the king.)
WILLIAM III.: "Can this last long?" (To his physician. He suffered from a broken collarbone.)
WILLIAM (of Nassau): "O God, have mercy upon me, and upon this poor nation." (This was just before he was shot by Balthasar Gerard.)
WILSON (the ornithologist): "Bury me where the birds will sing over my grave."
WOLFE (General): "What! do they run already? Then I die happy." (See Epaminondas.)
WOLSEY (Cardinal): "Had I but served my God with half the zeal that I have served my king, He would not have left me in my grey hairs."
WORDSWORTH: "God bless you! Is that you, Dora?"
WYATT (Thomas): "What I then said [about the treason of Princess Elizabeth] I unsay now; and what I now say is the truth." (This was said to the priest who waited on him on the scaffold.)
ZISKA (John): "Make my skin into drum-heads for the Bohemian cause."
   Many of these sayings, like all other history, belong to the region of Phrase and Fable, but the collection is interesting and fairly exhaustive.

Dymphna The tutelar saint of those stricken in spirit. She was a native of Britain, and a woman of high rank. It is said that she was murdered, at Geel, in Belgium, by her own father, because she resisted his