[1] So soone as the noble king had finished his last will and testament, as afore is said, he shortlie there|vpon yeelded vp his spirit to almightie God,The decease of King Henrie the eight. depar|ting this world the eight and twentith daie of Ianu|arie, in the eight and thirtith yeare of his reigne, and in the yeare of our Lord 1546, after the accompt of the church of England; but after the accompt which we follow in this booke 1547, beginning our yeare the first of Ianuarie. He reigned thirtie and seuen yeares, nine moneths and od daies. His bodie (accor|ding to his will in that behalfe) was conueied to Windsor with all funerall pompe, and in the college there interred. Of this tresnoble and trespuissant monarch, I find these few verses, which maie serue in good stead of an epitaph or funerall inscription:

Henricus octa| [...] post 38. [...].Henricus princeps propè lustra peregerat octo,

Et populum magna prudens cum laude regebat,

Ex quo magna solitractauit sceptra Britanni:

Cùm Deus omnipotens, morbo obrepente, moneret

Hinc emigrandum de vita. Proh doloringens!

Quo [...] pia pleb [...]lachrymis quàm tristibus ora rigauit?

Quàm grauiterregni proceres planxere cubantem?

Anglia tota iacet moerens, lugubris & amens,

Nil opis apportant medici, nil profuit herba [...]

Quae solet humanis membris adferre salutem,

Pharmaca nil prosunt, praebetur potio frustra [...]

Heu nulla tristis mors est medicabilis arte.