...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...

...pull them down everywhere before the fire/ he cried out ' like a fainting woman,' as Pepys recounts, ' Lord ! what can I do? I am spent; people will not obey me.' Meanwhile, great bodies of the citizens of all classes had been at work ; some upon the cumbrous engines,...

...instructions. In Cannon Street he encountered the dazed and terrified magistrate, who exclaimed : " Lord ! what can I do ? I am spent. People will not obey me." He had been pulling down houses, had been up all night, and weary and distraught, must go home and...

..."At last met my Lord Mayor in Canning Street, like a man spent, with a handercher 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...

...last, "like a man spent with a handkercher about his neck," who, when he heard the king's message, " cried like a fainting woman, 'Lord! what can I do?...but the fire overtakes us faster than we can do it." So he left me, and I him " Pepys goes on, and walked home, gazing at the distracted people, not forgetting...

...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, 'Lord! what can 1 do? I am spent, people will npt obey me. I have been pulling down houses; but the fire overtakes...

...message, he cried, like a fainting woman, " Lord 1 what can I do ? I 1 Sir Thomas Bludworth. VOL. 3 T am spent : people will not obey me. I have been pulling...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 Fanning 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...

...At last met my Lord Mayor in Fanning 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...

...At last met my Lord Mayor in Fanning 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...