MAHOMET.  O, Allah, be it so!  Henceforth among the glorious host of paradise.

MARGARET (of Scotland, wife of Louis XI. of France).  Fi de la vie! qu’on ne m’en parle plus.

MARIE ANTOINETTE.  Farewell, my children, for ever.  I go to your father.

[Sec.] MASANIELLO.  Ungratetul traitors! (Said to the assassins.)

MATHEWS (Charles).  I am ready.

MIRABEAU.  Let me die to the sounds of delicious music.

MOODY (the actor): 

  Reason thus with life,
  If I do lose thee, I do lose a thing
  That none but fools would keep.

  Shakespeare.

MOORE (Sir John).  I hope my country will do me justice.

NAPOLEON I. Mon Dieu!  La nation Francaise!  Tete d’armee!

NAPOLEON III.  Were you at Sedan? (To Dr. Conneau.)

NELSON.  I thank God I have done my duty.

NERO.  Qualis artifex pereo!

PALMER (the actor).  There is another and a better country. (This he said on the stage, it being a line in the part he was acting.  From The Stranger.)

PITT (William).  O, my country, how I love thee!

PIZARRO.  Jesu!

POPE.  Friendship itself is but a part of virtue.

[**] RABELAIS.  Let down the curtain, the farce is over.

SAND (George).  Laisez la verdure. (Meaning, “Leave the tomb green, do not cover it over with bricks or stone.”  George Sand was Mde.  Dudevant.)

SCHILLER.  Many things are growing plain and clear to my understanding.

SCOTT (Sir Walter).  God bless you all! (To his family.) SIDNEY (Algernon).  I know that my Redeemer liveth.  I die for the good old cause.

SOCRATES.  Crito, we owe a cock to AEsculapius.

STAEL (Mde. de).  I have loved God, my father, and liberty.

[] TALMA.  The worst is, I cannot see.

[*] TASSO.  Lord, into thy hands I commend my spirit!

THURLOW (Lord).  I’ll be shot if I don’t believe I’m dying.

[**] VESPASIAN.  A king should die standing.

WEBSTER.  I still live!

WILLIAM III. (of England).  Can this last long? (To his physician).

WILLIAM OF NASSAU.  O God, have mercy upon me, and upon this poor nation! (This was said as he was shot by Balthasar Gerard, 1584).

WOLFE (General).  What! do they run already?  Then I die happy.

WYATT (Thomas) That which I then said I unsay.  That which I now say is true. (This to the priest who reminded him that he had accused the Princess Elizabeth of treason to the council, and that he now alleged her to be innocent.)

[Illustration] Those names preceded by similar pilcrows indicate that the “dying words” ascribed to them are identical or nearly so.  Thus the [*] before Charlemagne, Columbus, Lady Jane Grey, and Tasso, show that their words were alike.  So with the before Augustus, Demonax, and Rabelais; the [**] before Louis XVIII. and Vespasian; the [Sec.] before Caesar and Masaniello; the [||] before Arria, Hunter, and Louis XIV.; and the [] before Goethe and Talma.