Compare 1577 edition: 1 In this fourtéenth and last yeare of king Henries reigne, Fabian. The k. mea [...] to haue made a iournie a|gainst the Infidels. a councell was holden in the white friers in London, at the which, among other things, order was taken for ships and gallies to be builded and made readie, and all other things necessarie to be prouided for a voiage which he meant to make into the holie land, there to recouer the citie of Ierusalem from the Infidels. For it gréeued him to consider the great malice of christian princes, that were bent vpon a mischéefous purpose to destroie one another, to the perill of their owne soules, rather than to make war against the enimies of the christian faith, as in con|science (it séemed to him) they were bound. He held his Christmas this yeare at Eltham,The king is vexed with sicknesse. being sore vex|ed with sicknesse, so that it was thought sometime, EEBO page image 541 that he had beene dead: notwithstanding it pleased God that he somwhat recouered his strength againe, and so passed that Christmasse with as much ioy as he might.
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.]