They had thought him mad, but humored him; but now he was almost furious in his wild cries for a priest, not only to shrive him, but to bear his message to the King.
But kneel thee down by me, "And shrive thee so clean of thy deadly sin, "That absolved thou mayst be.
And therefore, when they will shrive them, they take fire and set it beside them, and cast therein powder of frankincense; and in the smoke thereof they shrive them to God, and cry him mercy.
For they will first shrive them and mark them with the token of the holy cross, so that the fiends ne have no power over them.
For they shrive them and housel them evermore once or twice in the week.
I doubt no doubts: I strive, and shrive my clay, And fight my fight in the patient modern way For true love and for thee -- ah me!
For he caught a glimpse of an aged crone Who knelt beside a coffin alone; She had sold her cloak to shrive the dead And buy a crucifix!
Sir Launcelot lay in a painful bed, And spake with a dreary steven; Sir Bishop, I pray you shrivemy soul And make it clean for heaven.
But you have told the story bravely, and now will I shrive you, my son.
Then the priest said to Roderick, "And now, dear son, confess your sin and let me shrive you.
They arc all punishable with death," replied Drost Peter, "but it is still desirable that they were allowed time to shrive themselves, and look to the salvation of their sinful souls.
Comest thou hither to shrive me to-night, ere thou doomest me to the wheel to-morrow?
Oh, if you would be saved from the flames of everlasting Hell, get me a priest to shrive me.
The messenger that had been despatched for a priest to shrive the dying nun had not yet returned, and Henry's services were put in requisition to perform the holy office.
The fearful intelligence of their leader's peril spread with lightning speed through the city, and self-sent messengers hurried in every direction, and summoned leeches and priests to cure or shrive the dying monarch.
Hardrager has promised me christian burial, and sent for a priest to shrivemy parting soul.
Look, my lord Warden, as you have in charge, The Shrive perform his office.
It is mine own; Therefore, I'll meet him on his way to court, And shrive him of it: there will be the sport.
Eve, awake at last, sent up shriek after shriek; Sir Andrew bending over the two fallen men, the murderer and the murdered, began to shrive them swiftly ere the last beat of life should have left their pulses.
See, they lead the strangers from the cell within, And raiment holy and young lambs, whose blood shall shrive the blood of Sin.
But first, as you may perhaps remember, he went at night to shrive the hermit of Gouda.
Shrive thyself, thou vile knave, for I mean that thou shalt hang this day, and that where three roads meet, so that all men shall see thee hang, for carrion crows and daws to peck at.
Shrive thyself, for thou wilt have no time for shriving when I am done with thee.
I pray you let me go upon my way, for there are those whom I would shrive and housel.
That will be long enough to shrive the young Englishman," observed the jailer, as he closed the door.
So the queen was led forth, and her ghostly father was brought to her to shrive her, and there was weeping and wailing of many lords and ladies.
Then he kneeled down, and prayed the hermit to shrive him, and besought that he might be his brother.
But I canshrive their souls and hang their bodies most devoutly.
Then for some hours she wandered, but when the fell disease had quite made sure of its prey, her mind cleared, and she begged Gerard to shrive her.
But in the middle of his frugal meal a female servant came running, and begged him to come and shrive her dying master, He returned the bread to his wallet, and followed her without a word.
Yankee Sam dying, and he to hear his last confession, he the priest to shrive him, he the preacher to console him!
I've heard of ye, and the mon that could shrive Yankee Sam is a good enough priest for any mon.
