[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 annos

Anglorum gentem summa cum laude & amore,

I àm senescenti fatalis terminus aeui

Ingruerat, morbus fatalem accerserat horam.]