DYING SAYINGS 
 
 
turned his face to the wall; and twice cried, 
"Huz ! huz ! (ont, out), and then died.") 
  Louis IX. I will enter now into the house of 
the Lord. 
  11 Louis XIV. Why weep ye? Did you think 
I should live for ever? (Then after a pause) I 
thought dying had been harder. 
  t Louis XVlI. A king should die standing. 
  MAHOMET. 0, Allah, be it so! Henceforth 
among the glorious host of paradise. 
  MARGARET (of Scotland, wife of Louis XI. of 
France). Fi de la vie! qu'on ne in'en parle 
plus. 
  MARIE ANTOINETTE. Farewell, my children, 
for ever. I go to your father. 
  § MASANIELLO.   Ungratetul traitors! (Said 
to the assassins.) 
  MATHEWS (Charles). I am ready. 
  MIRABEAU. Let me die to the sounds of de- 
licious music. 
  MOODY (the actor): 
     Reason thus with life, 
     If I do lose thee, I do lose a thing 
     That none but fools would keep. 
                             Shakespeare. 
  MOORE (Sir John). I hope my country will 
do me justice. 
  NAPOLEON I. Mon Dieu! La nation Fran- 
caise! TUte d'armi6e! 
  NAPOLEON III. Were you at Sedan ? (To Dr. 
Conneau.) 
  NELSON. I thank God I have done my duty. 
  NERO. Qualis artifex pereo! 
  PALMER (the actor). There is another and a 
better country. (This he said on the stage, it 
being a line in the part he was acting. From The 
Stranger.) 
  PITT (William). 0, my country, how I love 
thee ! 
  PIZARRO. Jesu! 
  POPE. Friendship itself is but a part of vir- 
tue. 
  f RABELAIS. Let down the curtain, the farce 
is over. 
  SAND (George). Laisez la verdure. (Mean- 
ing, "Leave the tomb green, do not cover it over 
with bricks or stone." George Sand was Mde. 
Dudevant.) 
  SCHILLER. Many things are growing plain 
and clear to my understanding. 
  SCOTT (Sir Walter). God bless you all! (To 
his family.) 
 
 
  SIDNEY (Alqernon). I know that my Redeem- 
er liveth. I die for the good old cause. 
  SOCRATES. Crito, we owe a cock to iEscula- 
Pius. 
  STAEL (Mde. de).  I have loved God, my 
father, and liberty. 
  ¶ TAxLA. The worst is, I cannot see. 
  TASSO. Lord, into thy hands I commend 
my spirit! 
  THURLOW (Lord). I'll be shot if I don't be- 
lieve I'm dying. 
  t VESPASIAN. A king should die standing. 
  WEBSTER. I still live! 
  WILLIAM III. (of England). Can this last 
long? (To his physician). 
  WILLIAM OF NASSAU. 0 God, have mercy up- 
on me, and upon this poor nation! (This was 
said as he was shot by Balthasar Gerard, 1584). 
  WOLFE (General). What! do they run al- 
ready? Then I die happy. 
  WYATT (Thomas). That which I then said I 
unsay. That which I now say is true. (This 
to the priest who reminded him that he had ac- 
cused the Princess Elizabeth of treason to the 
council, and that he now alleged her to be inno- 
cent.) 
  *** Those names preceded by similar 
pilcrows indicate that the "dying words" 
ascribed to them are identical or nearly so. 
Thus the * before Charlemagne, Colum- 
bus, Lady Jane Grey, and Tasso, show 
that their words were alike. So with the 
t before Augustus, Demonax, and Rabe- 
lais; the t before Louis XVIII. and Ves- 
pasian; the § before Coesar and Masani- 
ello; the 11 before   Arria, Hunter, and 
Louis XIV.; and the ¶ before Goethe and 
Tahna. 
  Dys'colus, Moroseness personified in 
The Parple Island, by Phineas Fletcher 
(1633). " He nothing liked or praised." 
Fully described in canto viii. (Greek, dus- 
kWlos, "fretful.") 
  Dysmas, Dismas, or Demas, the peni- 
tent thief crucified with our Lord. The 
impenitent thief is called Gesmas or Ges- 
tas. 
   Alta petit Dismas, infelix infima Gesmas. 
                         Part of a Charm. 
       To paradise thief Dismas went, 
       But Gesmas died impenitent. 
 
 
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DYSMAS