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  • CromwellsaidtotheLong Parliament whenhethought it wasno longer fitto conducttheaffairs of thenation,'You havesattoolong hereforanygood youhavebeendoing. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go!'

    - Leo(pold) Charles Maurice Stennett Amery
      Remark addressed to Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, House of Commons,7 May.

  • You have sat too long here for any good you have been doing.Depart,I say, and let us have done with you.In the name of God, go!

    - Oliver Cromwell
      On dismissing the Rump Parliament, 20  Apr.

  • Depart,be off,excede,evade,erump!

    - Oliver Wendell Holmes
      'Aestivation'.

  • And as for you, archers, soldiers, gentlemen, and all otherswhoare besieging Orleans,depart in God'sname to your own country† I assure you that wherever I find your people in France I shall fight them, and pursue them, and expel them from here, whether they will or not.

    -StJoan of Arc
      Letter to the English at Poitiers, 22 Mar. Quoted in Les Proce'  s de Jeanne d'Arc (translated by C Larrington), p.33.

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