...Jacob Astley on the commencement of this battle, have been much and justly admired — " O Lord ! thon knowest how busy I must be this day. If I forget thee, do not thou forget me. March on boys ! '' BB "The royal army lay at Banbury; that of the parliament at Kineton, in the county of Warwick....

...men to the charge at Edgehill, he was seen lifting his eyes toward heaven, and heard to say — " O Lord, thou knowest how busy I must be this day ; — if I forget thee, do not thou forget roe :" — a prayer which bespoke the rationality as well as the fervour of his piety. The name of...

...charge of Sir Jacob Astley on the commencement of this battle, have been much and justly admired — " O Lord ! thou knowest how busy I must be this day. If I forget thce, do not thou forget me March on boys ! " B i: "The royal army lay at Banbury; that of the parliament...

...Edgehill ; and the words of the prayer as given by Hume after Warwick are materially different : " O Lord ! thou knowest how busy I must be this day, if I forget thee," &c. Atterbury published four volumes of sermons, in which the great truths of Christianity are enforced...

...Jacob Astley, who commanded the foot, made the following remarkable prayer at the commencement : " 0 Lord ! thou knowest how busy I must be this day ; if I forget thee, do not thou forget me. March on, boys !" It is worthy of remark that the long service and military renown of the Puritan campaigners...

...BLACK. WHITE LOHD ASTLEY, before he charged, at the battle of Edgehill, made this short prayer : " 0 Lord, Thou knowest how busy I must be this day, if I forget Thee, do not Thou forget me ! " There were certainly," says Hume, " much longer prayers said in the parliamentary army, but I doubt...

...prayer of a gallant cavalier, Sir Jacob Astley, before the battle of Edgehill, " O Lord," he said, " thou knowest how busy I must be this day : If I forget thee, do not thou forget me." He then rose from his knees, and exclaiming to his men, — " March on, my boys !" led them on to battle.f...

...prayer ; for he lifted up his hands and eyes to heaven, saying, ' Oh Lord ! thou knowest how busy 1 must be this day ; if I forget thee, do not thou forget me." And with that he rose up, crying, ' March on, boys !' " Clarendon (Life, i., 160) tells us that Sir...

...parliamentary army, but it may be doubted whether there were so good a one. It was simply this : " O Lord ! thou knowest how busy I must be this day ! If I forget thee, do not thou forget me." He now concluded his brave and irreproachable career, by a saying not less to be remembered by the...

...parliamentary army, but it may be doubted whether there were so good a one. It was simply this : " O Lord ! thou knowest how busy I must be this day ! If I forget thee, do not thou forget me." He now concluded his brave and irreproachable career, by a saying not less to be remembered by the...