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marguerite de navarre farewell, and remember me.

nicholas ridley let the flames come near me, i cannot burn, i cannot burn.

philip melanchthon nothing else but heaven.

michelangelo i’m still learning.

nostradamus tomorrow, at sunrise, i shall no longer be here. ★

george buchanan it matters little to me; for if i am but once dead they may bury me or not bury me as they please. they may leave my corpse to rot where i die if they wish. ★

fernando álvarez de toledo too late. ★

humphrey gilbert we are as neare to heaven by sea as by land.

paolo farinati now i am going. ★

henry IV of france i am wounded. ★

johan van oldenbarnevelt make it short. make it short. ★

paolo sarpi be thou everlasting.

john donne i were miserable, if i might not die. ★★★

gustavus adolphus i have enough, brother; try to save your own life.

john taylor how sweet it is to rest. ★

john milton death is the great key that opens the palace of eternity.

henri de la tour d’auvergne i did not mean to be killed today.

james sharp i shall be happy.

thomas hobbes now i am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.

titus oates it is all the same in the end. ★

james gardiner you are fighting for an earthly crown; i am going to receive a heavenly one. ★