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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.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 Whether this was true that so he spake, as one that gaue too much credit to foolish prophesies & vaine tales, or whether it was fained, as in such cases it commonlie happeneth, we leaue it to the aduised rea|der to iudge.

He is buried at Canturbu|rie.

His issue.

His bodie with all funerall pompe was conueied vnto Canturburie, and there solemnlie bu|ried, leauing behind him by the ladie Marie daugh|ter to the lord Humfrie Bohun earle of Hereford and Northhampton, Henrie prince of Wales, Tho|mas duke of Clarence, Iohn duke of Bedford, Hum|frie duke of Glocester, Blanch duchesse of Bauier, and Philip quéene of Denmarke: by his last wife Iane, he had no children. This king was of a meane stature, well proportioned, and formallie compact,His stature. quicke and liuelie, and of a stout courage. In his latter daies he shewed himselfe so gentle, that he gat more loue amongst the nobles and people of this realme, than he had purchased malice and euill will in the beginning.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 But yet to speake a truth, by his proceedings, af|ter he had atteined to the crowne, what with such taxes, tallages, subsidies, and exactions as he was constreined to charge the people with; and what by punishing such as mooued with disdeine to see him v|surpe the crowne (contrarie to the oth taken at his entring into this land, vpon his returne from exile) did at sundrie times rebell against him, he wan him|selfe more hatred, than in all his life time (if it had beene longer by manie yeares than it was) had beene possible for him to haue weeded out & remooued. And yet doubtlesse, woorthie were his subiects to tast of that bitter cup, sithens they were so readie to ioine and clappe hands with him, for the deposing of their rightfull and naturall prince king Richard, whose chéefe fault rested onlie in that, that he was too boun|tifull to his fréends, and too mercifull to his foes; spe|ciallie if he had not béene drawne by others, to séeke reuenge of those that abused his good and courteous nature. ¶But now to returne to the matter present. The duke of Clarence immediatlie vpon knowlege had of his father king Henrie the fourth his death, returned out of Guien into England, with the earle of Angolesme, and other prisoners.

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