Oxford Essential Quotations (5 ed.)

Edited by: Susan Ratcliffe

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Published online:: 2017

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Thomas Wolsey c.1475–1530
English cardinal; Lord Chancellor, 1515–29

Father Abbot, I am come to lay my bones amongst you.
George Cavendish Negotiations of Thomas Wolsey (1641)
Had I but served God as diligently as I have served the King, he would not have given me over in my grey hairs.
George Cavendish Negotiations of Thomas Wolsey (1641); see Shakespeare

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