Anne Boleyn quotes
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“O Death, rock me asleep, bring me to quiet rest, let pass my weary guiltless ghost out of my careful breast.”
-- Anne BoleynSource : Anne Boleyn, “O Death Rock Me Asleep”
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“The executioner is, I believe, very expert; and my neck is very slender”
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“From a private gentlewoman you have made me first a marchioness, then a queen; and, as you can raise me no higher in the world, you are now sending me to be a saint in Heaven.”
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“If any person should meddle with my cause, I require them to judge the best'.”
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“Remember me when you do pray that hope doth lead from day to day.”
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“The king has been very good to me. He promoted me from a simple maid to be a marchioness. Then he raised me to be a queen. Now he will raise me to be a martyr.”
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“And thus I take my leave of the world and of you all, and I heartily desire you all to pray for me.”
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“O Lord have mercy on me, to God I commend my soul.”
-- Anne BoleynSource : Anne Boleyn's speech at her execution, tudorhistory.org. May 19, 1536.
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“Good Christian people, I am come hither to die, for according to the law, and by the law I am judged to die, and therefore I will speak nothing against it. I am come hither to accuse no man, nor to speak anything of that, whereof I am accused and condemned to die.”
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“To Jesus Christ I commend my soul; Lord Jesus, receive my soul.”
-- Anne BoleynSource : Anne Boleyn's speech at her execution, tudorhistory.org. May 19, 1536.
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“If it ever lay in my power, I will work the Cardinal as much displeasure as he has done to me.”
-- Anne Boleyn
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