 | John Richard Green - Great Britain - 1874 - 1076 pages
...into a fresh struggle. His defeat at Solway Moor brought the young King broken-hearted to his grave. " It came with a lass and it will go with a lass," he cried, as they brought him on his death-bed the news of Mary Stuart's birth. The hand of his infant... | |
 | Robert Anderson (schoolmaster.) - Scotland - 1874 - 268 pages
...the news reached him of the birth of a daughter, referring to the crown of Scotland, he murmured : ' It came with a lass, and it will go with a lass,' and gradually sank, dying, December 14, 1542, in his thirty-first year. 137. CHARACTER OF JAMES. —... | |
 | 1876 - 649 pages
...on the 7th of December ; but it was a maid child, not a son, and when_he heard it he sighed out, ' It came with a lass, and it will go with a lass ! ' — meaning the crown of Scotland, which had come to the Stewarts with Marjorie Bruce, and must... | |
 | Jean Henri Merle d'Aubigné - Reformation - 1876 - 556 pages
...those who had brought him the sad tidings. ' The devil go with it,' he said; 'it will end as it began; it came with a lass, and it will go with a lass.'* He saw his family extinct, his crown lost. Other Stuarts, howevei, bore it after Mary. Both Scotland... | |
 | James Grant Wilson - English poetry - 1876 - 604 pages
...afterwards the beautiful but unfortunate Mary Queen of Scots. On being informed of this event he said, " It came with a lass, and it will go with a lass," deeming it another misfortune that it was not a male heir. A little before his death, which occurred... | |
 | England - 1877 - 284 pages
...announcement of the birth of a daughter to him, just one week before his death. He is said to have murmured, "It came with a lass, and it will go with a lass," — in allusion to the crown coming to the Stuarts by a daughter of Bruce. The dying monarch's discontent... | |
 | Charles William Adam Tait - Great Britain - 1878 - 236 pages
...V. intrigues with the English Catholics, defeated by Somerset at Solway Moss. Birth of Mary Stuart. "It came with a lass, and it will go with a lass." 1542. 3 Somerset's invasion of Scotland to bring about marriage of Edward VI. and Mary Stuart. Fruitless... | |
 | William Pembroke Fetridge - Europe - 1878 - 886 pages
...placed a Stuart on | ter. The armed men then jumped up from the throne — " Then God's will be done. It came with a lass, and it will go with a lass ;" and, turning his face to the wall, died. One side of the square ie occupied by the chapel. Notice... | |
 | Jabez Marrat - Landscapes - 1879 - 250 pages
...said in mournful reference to the extinction of his kingdom : ' Is it so ? then God's will be done. It came with a lass, and it will go with a lass.' The Regent Murray was shot in Linlithgow, when passing through on his way from Stirling to Edinburgh.... | |
 | Jean L. Watson - 1880 - 236 pages
...Moss. They told him of the birth of his daughter at Linlithgow. " It will end as it began," he said ; " it came with a lass and it will go with a lass " — alluding to the daughter of Robert Bruce, who brought the crown into the house of Stuart. From... | |
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Is it so?" reflecting on the alliance which had placed the Stewart family on the throne; "then God's will be done. It came with a lass, and it will go with a lass. 
