Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 The morrow after Candlemas daie began a par|lement,141 [...] which he had called at London, but he depar|ted this life before the same parlement was ended:A par [...]ement. for now that his prouisions were readie, and that he was furnished with sufficient treasure, soldiers, cap|teins, vittels, munitions, tall ships, strong gallies, and all things necessarie for such a roiall iournie as he pretended to take into the holie land, he was eft|soones taken with a sore sicknesse, which was not a le|prosie,The K. sick of an apoplexie. [...]. striken by the hand of God (saith maister Hall) as foolish friers imagined; but a verie apoplexie, of the which he languished till his appointed houre, and had none other gréefe nor maladie; so that what man or|deineth, God altereth at his good will and pleasure, not giuing place more to the prince, than to the poo|rest creature liuing, when he séeth his time to dispose of him this waie or that, as to his omnipotent pow|er and diuine prouidence seemeth expedient. During this his last sicknesse, H [...]ll. he caused his crowne (as some write) to be set on a pillow at his beds head, and sud|denlie his pangs so sore troubled him, that he laie as though all his vitall spirits had beene from him de|parted. Such as were about him, thinking verelie that he had béene departed, couered his face with a linnen cloth.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 The prince his sonne being hereof aduertised, en|tered into the chamber,The prince ta [...]et [...] awaie the crowne before his fa|ther was dead tooke awaie the crowne, and departed. The father being suddenlie reuiued out of that trance, quicklie perceiued the lacke of his crowne; and hauing knowledge that the prince his sonne had taken it awaie, caused him to come before his presence, requiring of him what he meant so to misuse himselfe. [...] is blamed of the king. His answer. The prince with a good audacitie ans|wered;
Sir, to mine and all mens iudgements you seemed dead in this world, wherefore I as your next heire apparant tooke that as mine owne, and not as yours. Well faire sonne (said the king with a great sigh) what right I had to it,A guiltie con|science in ex|tremitie of sicknesse pin| [...]heth sore. God knoweth. Well (said the prince) if you die king, I will haue the garland, and trust to kéepe it with the sword against all mine enimies, as you haue doone. Then said the king, I commit all to God, and remember you to doo well.With that he turned himselfe in his bed,The death of Henrie the fourth. and shortlie after departed to God in a chamber of the abbats of Westminster called Ierusalem, the twentith daie of March, in the yeare 1413, and in the yeare of his age 46, when he had reigned thirteene yeares, fiue mo|neths and od daies, in great perplexitie and little pleasure [or fouretéene yeares, as some haue noted, who name not the disease whereof he died, but refer it to sicknesse absolutelie, whereby his time of depar|ture did approach and fetch him out of the world: as Ch. Okl. saith, whose words may serue as a funerall epigramme in memoriall of the said king Henrie:
Ab [...]. F [...]. out of [...].Henricus quartus bis septem rexerat annosAnglorum gentem summa cum laude & amore,I àm senescenti fatalis terminus aeuiIngruerat, morbus fatalem accerserat horam.]
Compare 1577 edition: 1 We find, that he was taken with his last sicke|nesse, Fabian. while he was making his praiers at saint Ed|wards shrine, there as it were to take his leaue, and so to procéed foorth on his iournie: he was so sudden|lie and greeuouslie taken, that such as were about him, feared least he would haue died presentlie, wher|fore to reléeue him (if it were possible) they bare him into a chamber that was next at hand, belonging to the abbat of Westminster, where they laid him on a pallet before the fire, and vsed all remedies to reuiue him. At length, he recouered his spéech, and vnder|standing and perceiuing himselfe in a strange place which he knew not, he willed to know if the chamber had anie particular name, wherevnto answer was made, that it was called Ierusalem. Then said the king;
Lauds be giuen to the father of heauen, for now I know that I shall die heere in this chamber, according to the prophesie of me declared, that I should depart this life in Ierusalem.