...suggestion of Pepys, that he should pull the houses down, and thus endeavor to stop the fire, he cried, " Lord ! what can I do ? I am spent ; people will not...but the fire overtakes us faster than we can do it." Carts laden with furniture, sick persons carried away in their beds, thousands of halfclothed men,...

...last met my lord mayor in Cannon Street, like a man spent, witfi a handkerchief about his head. To the king's message he cried, like a fainting woman, ' Lord, what can I do ? I am spent. The people will not obey me. I have been pulling down houses, but the fire overtakes us faster than...

...message, he cried, like a fainting woman, 1 St. Lawrence Poultney, of which Thomas Elborough was curate. " Lord! what can I do ? I am spent: people will not...but the fire overtakes us faster than we can do it." That he needed no more soldiers; and that, for himself, he must go and refresh himself, having been...

...suggestion of Pepys, that he should pull the houses down, and thus endeavor to stop the fire, he cried, " o Carts laden with furniture, sick persons carried away in their beds, thousands of halfclothed men,...

...should pull the houses down, and thus endeavor to stop the fire, he cried, "Lord ! what can I do? 1 am spent ; people will not obey me. I have been pulling...but the fire overtakes us faster than we can do it." Carts laden with furniture, sick persons carried away in their beds, thousands of halfclothed men,...

...Campden House kept his mayoralty that " silly man," as Pepys calls him, Sir Thomas Bindworth, who " cried, like a fainting woman, ' Lord ! what can I do ? I am spent ; people will not obey me ' "in the midst of the Great Pire. Mr. McMurray has collected good store of diversified detail of the...

...mayor in Canning street, like a man spent, with a handkercher about his neck. To the King's message,2 he cried, like a fainting woman, 'Lord! what can I...but the fire overtakes us faster than we can do it.' That he needed no more soldiers; and that, for himself, he must go and refresh himself, having been...

...At last met my Lord Mayor in Canning Street, like a man spent, with a handkercher about his neck. To the King's message, he cried, like a fainting woman,...but the fire overtakes us faster than we can do it." That he needed no more soldiers ; and that, for himself, he must go and refresh himself, having been...

...advised to intercept the progress of the flames, by pulling down some of the houses ; but he answered, " Lord ! what can I do ? I am spent, people will not...but the fire overtakes us faster than we can do it." By eight in the morning it had reached London Bridge, " and there dividing, left enough to burn down...

...the lord mayor, and give him this command. In Cannon-street he encounters the lord mayor, who cries, like a fainting woman, " Lord ! what can I do ? I am spent. People will not obey me." He had been pulling down houses. He did not want any soldiers. He had be*en up all night, and must...