...my desire (and God may be pleased to grant it me) chat I might die in the pulpit; if not that, yet that I might take my death in the pulpit, that is. die the sooner by occasion of my former labours. I thank you for keeping our George2 in your memory. I hope God reserves it for so...

...cathedral, he none the less insisted that he still keep 'my Lent Sermon, except my Lord Chamberlaine beleeve me to be dead, and leave me out; for as long as I live, and am not speechlesse, I would not decline that service'." 'That service' produced, of course, Donne's legendary...

...my " desire, and God may be pleased to grant it, that I might " die in the pulpit; if not that, yet that I might take my " death in the pulpit; that is,...except my Lord Chamberlain believe me to " be dead, and so leave me out of the roll : but as long as I " live, and am not speechless, I would not willingly,...

...legs, 'it hath been my desire,' he told Garrard, 'that I might die in the Pulpit; if not, that I may take my death in the Pulpit; that is, die the sooner by occasion of my former labours.'32 He was impatient with his symptoms, eager to get back to London. The account...