. Old England : a pictorial museum of regal, ecclesiastical, baronial, municipal, and popular antiquities . 1472. -Edward VI. (Cotton IIS. VcspasUc, F .3 >. 1174.—Old Somerset House 1475,-Edward VI. No. 52.—Vol. IT. 55 26 OLD ENGLAND. [Bock V. the Tower wnarf, when Margaret Rope pressed through the , and hung, sobbing, on Ids neck. Her father tried to consoleher. He blessed her, and the last agonizing farewell was said, andhe was once more moving on, when again she burst through theguard, again clasped his neck and wept. More, too, then wept, re-peating his blessing and pious co
. Old England : a pictorial museum of regal, ecclesiastical, baronial, municipal, and popular antiquities . 1472. -Edward VI. (Cotton IIS. VcspasUc, F .3 >. 1174.—Old Somerset House 1475,-Edward VI. No. 52.—Vol. IT. 55 26 OLD ENGLAND. [Bock V. the Tower wnarf, when Margaret Rope pressed through the , and hung, sobbing, on Ids neck. Her father tried to consoleher. He blessed her, and the last agonizing farewell was said, andhe was once more moving on, when again she burst through theguard, again clasped his neck and wept. More, too, then wept, re-peating his blessing and pious consolation. The unutterable pathosof the scene melted guards and people: the former could with difficultynerve themselves to divide the father and daughter. But dividedthey were. More had then done with this life, and with a cheerfulspirit prepared to enter on the next. The witty sayings recorded ofhim in his last hours, we have seen somewhere found fault with, asunbecoming an occasion so awful. To More there was no awfulnessabout it. He was full of the happiest anticipations of the greatchange ; and was too truthful to affect a formality and gloom f
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