have beene fo excellent, that he in a Manner did fhew them the fame; long it was not ere his Highneffe was ready and gone to the Chappell to heare him. . But ere I proceed, give mee Leave I intreate you, to admire the wonderfull Providence and Goodneffe of God, which did fo provide for him a Sermon of Mortification, or Preparation, which you will: For the Time, Text, 'powerfull Delivery, Method, &c. were alfo fitting to our following unthought of Funerall, as though an Angell had come the wnole Weeke before from Heaven, prefixing unto him the Time, Neceffity, Text, Order, and Amplifications thereof, fo truly did he thunder out the mortall Mifery of Mankind, but chiefely of Princes: The Text was out of Job the 14. and 1. Verfe, Man that is borne of a Woman, is of full fhort Continuance and of Trouble. From which he fhewed 3 Things; firft, our miferable Entry into the World, and fhort Continuance; laftly, our miferable Pilgrimage, and Endurance in the World full of Trouble; in which the Mifery and Troubles of all Estates were well fhewed, but chiefely thofe of great Ones. Sermon being ended, his Highneffe did commend the fame, being very attentive all the Time thereof; presently thereafter going into Whitehall, where he alfo did heare another Sermon with the King his Father; which being alfo done, to Dinner they went, his Highneffe in outward Appearance eating with a reasonable good Stomack, yet looking exceeding ill and pale, with hollow ghaftly dead Eyes perceived of a great many. The first Day. After Dinner, for all his great Courage and Strife to over-mafter the Greatneffe of his Evill, diffembling the fame, the Conquerour of all, about 3 a Clock in the Afternoone began to fkirmish, with a fuddaine Sicknesse and Fainteneffe of the Heart (ufuall unto him) whereupon followed fhortly after a Shaking, with a great Heat and Headache, which from henceforth never left him; his Highneffe finding himselfe thus fuddainely taken, was forced to take his Leave, departing Home unto his Bed; where being laid, he found himselfe very ill, remaining all this Evening in an Agony, having a great Drought (which after this could never be quenched but with Death) his Eyes also being fo dimme, that they were not able to endure the Light of a Candle; for which that Night was ordained unto him a Cordiall of cooling Ptifan for quenching of his Thirft, with a moiftning Broath to be : given at the Ending of the Fit. This Night he rested ill. The fecond Day. On the Morrow after, being Monday the fix and twenty of the Month, and the fecond of his Sickneffe; his Highneffe felt fmall or no Ease of his Headache, continuing bound in his Belly, his Pulfe beating exceedingly, his Water being crude, thinne, and whitifh, which moved Doctor Mayerne, his Majeftie's chiefe Phifitian, to appoint for him a foftning Glifter, which accordingly to their Defire did worke very well. After which his Highneffe finding Intermiffion (which continued all that Day) did arife, and put on his Cloathes, playing at Cards that Day, and the next alfo, with his Brother the Duke of Yorke, and Count Henry: meane while there were many Meffages fent from the Court, and every where elfe, to know how Things went, all which (no Creature furmifing the leaft Danger) were answered with good Hopes, yet his Highneffe for all this looked ill and pale, fpake hollow, and fomewhat ftrangely, with dead funk Eyes, his Drineffe of Mouth and great Thirst continuing, for the which that Night were ordained unto him by the forefaid Doctors, fharpe, tarte, cordiall and cooling Juleps, prepared with all kind of Cordials and Antidotes poffible, his Brothes and Gellies being with the fame Care ordained: yet his Drought and Head-ache continuing (which could not be stayed) he remained still very ill, this Night refting quietly. The third Day. On Tuesday the feven and twenty, the third Day of his Sickneffe, he found fome Eafe in the Morning, fo that they were all in good Hope that it would have proved but fome Tertian, or baftard Tertian at the most, notwithstanding that his Highneffe, ghaftly rowling uncoath Lookes, did put them in fome Feare. This Day his Majefty did fend Mafter Nafmith, his Surgeon, to attend his Highneffe during his Sickneffe; unto whom, and divers others conferring of his Highneffe's Sickneffe, and the Danger of the fame; Doctor Mayerne did fay, that, in his Judgement, the fureft Way for his Highneffe's Safety was bleeding (as was thought) very fubftantially proving from the very dangerous forenamed Accidents and Indications of this Tertian, which he feared to be venemous, by reafon Humours feated in the naturall Parts, inclining, by reafon of the Quantity, to a continuall; that Bleeding chiefly, and that in great Quantity with Reiteration (if Need fo required:) Now whileft his Highneffe was ftrong, naturall Heate not being decayed, nor too much oppreffed, before that Feaver turned continuall, and he weaker, and leffe able to endure hereafter, would prove the fureft Way for his Safety. But the fame his Opinion, not being allowed of the reft (whom by Conference, when he named, or fpoke of Blood) he found directly oppofite; there was as yet no Confultation for Blood-letting, nor any Inclination that Wayes. This Morning he did rife and put on his Cloathes; but his Fit comming about Noone, firft with a cold, then a great Heate, without any Sweat, continuing untill Eight a Clock at Night, he was forced to goe to Bed againe, this Night refting quietly. The fourth Day. On Wednesday the eight and twentieth, and fourth Day of his Sickneffe, in the Morning, came Master Butler, the famous Phyfitian of Cambridge, a marvellous great Scholler, and of long Practife, and fingular Judgment, but withall very humerous; who (whatfoever he thought) comforting him with good Hopes, that he would fhortly recover, and that there was no Danger; yet fecretly unto others, did not let to fpeake doubtfully, (as they fay, his Humour is) that he could not tell what to make of it, and that he did not well well like of the fame; adding further, that if he did recover, he was likely to lye by it for a great while, with divers other like Speeches; neither could he be perfwaded, all the Time of his Highneffe's Sickneffe, to ftay any longer with him than one Houre, or thereabouts, every Morning; and fo in the Afternoone, to give his Counfell and Advice with the reft: what moved him I know not, whether he did miflike the French Doctors Company, or because the Cure was not committed to him as chiefe, or being jealous, and milliking his Highneffe's Disease, and therefore loved not to meddle too much in the Cure (which I rather imagine ;) or whether his Health or Humour impeached the fame, I dare not judge; the curious may best learne from himselfe; yet having at his Comming enquired what was done, he approved the fame, and wifhed the Continuance of the fame Proceedings, untill a further Judgement might be given of the fame Event: yet did his Highneffe finde fmall or no Eafe, but his Feaver, as yet not being continuall, he did rise and put on his Clothes, they all as yet conceiving reasonable good Hopes. The former Daies and this, his Stomack was not quite loft, but he would now and then take fome fuch Meate as the Phyfitians thought fitting; yet the Doctors, viz. Mayerne, Hamond, Butler, all confidering the Greatneffe of the Danger, and the Strangeneffe of the Disease, the Water in no Way fhewing the fame, which made them the loather to meddle, untill the Crifis were feene, his Highneffe remaining in the fame Eftate, the many dangerous forenamed Accidents, with the Good of the former Evacuations, his Belly now being hard bound, &c. would willingly have had more Doctors called for Confultation; which his Highneffe altogether refufing to allow of, because of the Confufion, They by a generall Confent (his Highneffe then having Intermiffion of his Fever) under all their Hands, did by their owne Report, give unto him a Purgation of Sena sod, and Rhubarb, infused in Cordiall and cooling Liquors, with Syrupe of Rofes loofing, which working feven or eight Times, brought away great Store of putred Choler, and in the End Phlegme, the Urine inclining fomewhat towards Concoction. But his Highneffe after the Working thereof, found not that Eafe that was expected; yet was ftill fed with Hopes of his Recovery. But Night being come, (towards which, during all his Sickneffe, he grew worse than in the Morning, wherein he was more fober alwaies than in the Evening) his Headache, Droughts and other Accidents, continuing, though not with Extremity, he refted ill, and unquietly. The fifth Day. On Thursday the nine and twentieth, and fifth Day of his Sickneffe, Hopes began a little to diminish, howbeit that Morning his Headache was fomewhat leffened, his Breath alfo (which before was fhort) being longer, which moved him to put on his Cloathes, endeavouring to rife as he had done before; but his Head being so giddy, that he was not able to stand alone, he was forced to betake him to his Bed againe, from henceforth ever keeping his Bed: Neverthelesse the tingling of his Eares, the Leapings and Boundings con tinuing tinuing alike; as alfo a fmall Fitt comming upon him, with a little Coldneffe, the Fever thereafter being continuall, with many fmall Intermiffions, and fmall and great Redoublings, the Violence whereof caufed his Tongue to become blacke and drie, the Leapings, and Boundings, and finging of the Eares encreafing. Many neere unto him, jealous of fo bad Signes without Amendment, feared the worst, his Highneffe now being forced to keepe his Bed continually, his Head being fo giddy, that he could not stand upright, his Eyes alfo fo dimme, that he could not indure the Candle Light; yet ftill the Doctors, by Reason of his extraordinary Patience (not fully knowing the Danger which afterwards appeared) not willing nor daring to be too bold, untill fome certaine further Knowledge, delaied to conclude of any Thing, fave that his Highneffe fhould ftill be plyed with all Sorts of Cordiall Juleps, which Art, or Experience could thinke of. Mafter Butler's Advife, they fay, was the fame, that Cordialls externall, and internall, the Restoratives and Diet begun, fhould be continued. Thus, no other Course as yet being thought of, ftill expecting the Succeffe of new Daies; Delaies bred Danger, his Highneffe remained ill, having no Evacuation by Sweat, neither was it expedient (as was thought) to force the fame, ftill expecting Nature's owne Time, which deceived them. This Evening there appeared a fatall Signe about two Houres or more within the Night, bearing the Colours and Shew of a* Rainbow, which hung directly croffe and over Saint James's House, it was first perceived about Seven a Clock at Night, which I my felfe did fee, which divers others looking thereupon with Admiration, continuing untill paft Bed-time, being no more feene: This Night was unquiet, and he refted ill. The fixth Day. On Friday the thirtieth, and fixth Day of his Sickneffe, he remained in the fame Estate, no Creature knowing what to fay or make of his Sickneffe, fome fearing one Thing, and fome another, the Doctor's still attending the Iffue of the eight Day, but for all that his Highneffe's Feaver remained continuall, withall the former cruell Accidents, for which this Morning was giving him a Glifter for washing of his Bowels, in which he found fome Ease. About Three a Clock in the Afternoone came his leffer Doubling; during which, his Breath became fhort, his Face very red, his Pulfe beating very fwiftly; in which Fit his Nofe began to bleed (as fome thought about two Ounces) then after staying of it felfe, whereby he found fome Eafe, not having bled (as his Cuftome was) of a great while before. From this Time forth, chiefely Doctor Mayerne, with Mafter Nafmith, his Majeftie's Chirurgion, began to propound the Neceffity of Bleeding, as heretofore they had done, whereunto Nature now invited, the Feaver remaining continuall, with a great abounding Fulneffe, in a Conftitution exceffively hot, in a Body which had much used bleeding, deprived of that Benefit for fome * A Lunar Rainbow, very rare, and commonly fatall. V. Arift. Meteor. VOL. I, Nnn Moneths Moneths before, yet the reft being fparing and loath to heare of the fame, there was nothing done, this Day alfo paffing as the reft; all this while the exceffive Paine of his Head continuing, as alfo his Heate and Thirft, for which, his Mouth and Tongue were continually wafhed; yet for all this his Highneffe and the reft were still encouraged, that he fhould fhortly recover, although indeed he became ftill worfe and worse. This Night he refted ill being alwayes fomewhat better in the Morning. The Seventh Day. On Saturday the laft of the Moneth, and seventh of his Sickneffe, there appeared no Amendment, his Highneffe continuing in a wonderfull exceffive Heat, after which came the great redoubling, raving as he was awake, with Blackneffe, Drines, and Clifts in his Tongue, was continually applied with all Things needfull, but to no Purpose, fave a little Eafe for the prefent, as alfo the tingling of the Eares, Leapings and Boundings became greater, the Urine's more crude, yet no Way fhewing the Danger of the Disease all this while, untill a little before his Death; over and above all other Griefes he found his Head exceedingly pained, a Thing lying as it had beene a Lumpe in his Forehead, which together with the Ulceration of his Throat, made him loth to fpeake, but when he muft needs, and then not without great Paine, the Extremity, as it were, of the Evill overcomming and ftupifying the Vitals and Senfes, ftriving to fubdue naturall Heat, and oppreffing the Heart, notwithstanding the doubling and trebling of the Cordials to withstand the fame. This Day alfo, Nature (as the Day before) though not in Quantity, did (as was faid) fhew the Neceffity of Bleeding, for which Cause it was with more Inftance againe propounded, and urged, than ever, as the onely Meanes, under God, to fave his Highneffe; at length after much adoe pro & contra, Doctor Mayerne urging, and Master Butler chiefely withstanding the fame, miftaking the first Beginning of his Highneffe's Sickneffe, in the End, the three Doctors, Mayerne, Hamond, and Butler did agree, that on the Morrow being Sunday (the eighth broken, and the feventh whole Day of his laft Sickneffe) a Vaine fhould be opened; all this while untill his Bleeding was paft, they conceived good Hope of his Recovery, yet he remained dangerously ill; you muft imagine that all this while of his Sickneffe, the whole World did almost every Houre fend unto Saint James's for Newes; the better Sort who were admitted to vifit him; or acquainted with thofe neere unto him, knowing the Danger, the reft fearing nothing, imagining it onely to have beene fome common Tertian, for which Caufe in many Places neere unto the City he was thought dead and gone, before they knew that he was dangerously fick. This Night was more cruell and unquiet unto him than any other. The eighth Day. On Sunday the firft of November, and the eight Day of his Sickneffe, according to their former Agreement, after much adoe, Mafter Butler refifting to confent that he fhould be let Bloud, becaufe (as he faid) it was the |