...case ; That thence the Royal actor borne The tragic scaffold might adorn : While round the armed bands He nothing common did or mean Upon that memorable...But with his keener eye The axe's edge did try ; Nor call'd the Gods, with vulgar spite, To vindicate his helpless right; But bow'd his comely head Down,...

...might adorn : While round the armed bands Did clap their bloody hands : ' He nothing common did, nor mean, Upon that memorable scene : But with his keener...eye The axe's edge did try : ' Nor called the gods, in vulgar spite, To vindicate his helpless right ; But bowed his comely head Down as upon a bed.' This...

...have witnessed 'vhat he describes, writes of this scene: — . " He nothing common did nor mean After that memorable scene ; But with his keener eye The axe's edge did try : Nor call'd the gods, with vulgar spite, To vindicate his helpless right; But bovv'd his comely head Down...

...borne The tragic scaffold might adorn. While round the armed bands Did clap their bloody hands, Hi nothing common did or mean Upon that memorable scene,...vulgar spite, To vindicate his helpless right; But bowed his comely head Down, as upon a bed. And he who wrote this was Cromwell's Latin Secretary ! and...

...Charles is said to have entered upon the icaffold through the centre window of the latter building. But with his keener eye The axe's edge did try : Nor...vulgar spite, To vindicate his helpless right; But bowed his comely head Down as upon a bed ! — So, in a few years after, wrote a most generous adversary,...

...that memorable scene, But with his keener eye The axe's edge did try ; Nor call'd the gods with vulgai spite To vindicate his helpless right ; But bow'd his comely head Down, as upon a bed." DS CARMEN XXXVIII. AD PUEKUM. PÉRSICOS odi, puer, apparatus ; Displicent nexœ philyra coronae ; Mitte...

...thus finely described by Andrew Marvel: — " While round the armed bands Did clap their bloody bauds, He nothing common did, or mean, Upon that memorable scene ; But with his keener eye The axe.s edge did try : Nor called the gods, with vulgar spite, To vindicate his helpless right; But bowed...

...actor borne, The tragic scaffold might adorn, While round the armed bands Did clap their bloody hands. HE nothing common did or mean Upon that memorable...with vulgar spite, To vindicate his helpless right l But towed his comely head, Down, as upon a bed. This was that memorable hour, Which first assured...

...round the armed bands Did clap their bloody hands. HE nothing common did or mean Upon that metnorable scene, But with his keener eye The axe's edge did...with vulgar spite, To vindicate his helpless right I But bowed his comely head, Down, as upon a bed. This was that memorable hour, Which first assured...

...himself, and his sword is pure spirit also. " He nothing common did or mean Upon that memorable scene, Nor called the gods with vulgar spite, To vindicate his helpless right ; But bowed his comely head Down as npon a bed." What a transit was that of his horizontal body alone, but...