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A02447	The true picture and relation of Prince Henry his noble and vertuous disposition containing certaine observations and proofes of his towardly and notable inclination to vertue, of the pregnancie of his wit, farre above his age, comprehended in sundry of his witty and pleasant speaches. By W.H. With the true relation of the sicknesse and death of the same most illustrious prince, vvith the opening of his body. Written by a famous doctor of physick in French, and newly translated into English.	W. H., fl. 1634.; Haydone, William.; Mayerne, Théodore Turquet de, Sir, 1573-1655.	1634 (1634)	STC 12581; ESTC S103592	29,247	48

familiar and gracious to all persons of fevv vvords using grauity vvith such as vvere graue seuere in time and place merry vvith those that vvere so disposed and vvise in all his actions farre aboue his age He kept his houshold Seruants in good order and vvas very vigilant and carefull of all his affaires His Court for Noble and generous behauiour did resemble some colledge that had been pikt and chosen out of the best and rarest Spirits of great Britaine He fauoured learning much He made so much of Soldiours men of vvarre that he made diuers Captaines Gentlemen of his priuy Chamber and tooke great pleasure in theyr company discoursing vvith them often touching military discipline He admired great and rare Spirits yea euen those of mechanicall and meane persons retaining diuers of that sort and vvent sometimes to see them vvork in their trades He delighted much in Architecture and building had already made some beginning thereof at Richmond house And doubtlesse if God had prolonged his dayes he had caused build many curious and sumptuons buildings Out of his Heroicall mind which breathed nothing but noble deedes he adorned likewise the British Ocean with that stately Prince a fit name for such a goodly Ship being as it were a Prince compared wieh other vessels Hee loued Musicke and namely good consorts of Instruments and voices ioyned together In his bodily exercises he did not exceede the limits of lawfull mediocrity He loued the Tinnish well He tooke no delight in pleasants and jeasters neither yet was he caried away with any affection to stage-playes He delighted more in hauking then hunting He was tall and of an high stature his body was strong and well proportioned his shoulders were broad his eyes quicke and pleasant his forehead broad his nose bigg his chinne broad and clouen his haire inclining to bleeke whereas before it had been of a whitish colour the colour of his face some what swarfe and scorched with the sunne his whole face and visage comely and beautifull looking for the most part with a sweete smyling and amiable countenance and withall full of grauity and Princely majesty resembling much in the shape of his body and diuers actions the King of Dennemark his Vncle. So that being thus beautified and adorned with so many excellent gifts and most rare vertues both of soule and body he did draw not only the eyes of many to come and behold him but likewise did easily gaine the hearts of all men yea euen of those which had only heard of him This illustrious and mighty Prince increassing thus in strenght honor and wisdome withall maner of vertues being the hope and solace of the people the glorie of his Parents cherissed and loued of all men euen of straungers and those of forreine nations and thinking on nothing lesse then such a suddaine and unexpected change as fell out soone after this most worthy personage farre otherwayes then his tender yeares and age seemed to promise to us by the will of his supreme creator was seased with a heauy disease and within a few dayes after was a tached by death selfe it so pleasing the almighty God to take from this world up to himselfe this noble Soule with such piety and deuotion as could be wished in a Christian soule to the intent that he might place him in one of his coelestiall mansions and so obtaine euerlasting life Which happened about eight of the clocke at night on Friday the 6. of Nouember 1612. This terrible and fearfull ecclipse not hauing been foretold and prognosticated long before did moue and trouble each one by diuers maners seeing cleerly herein the unrecoverable losse wherewith God punished us by taking away this Prince from the earth from the King his Father the cheefe staffe of his old age and from the people their most certaine hope which they had to se renewed one day in this illustrions graffe all the noble vertues of his forefathers The dolefull and lamentatable cries of all the people were great euery where their merrines turned into heauines and their laughing into floods of teares bewailing and lamenting dayly this great and unfortunate stroke whereof the vvound yet still bleedeth God of his vvonted mercy blesse and preserue our most noble King CHARLES and the rest of this Royall family vvithout kindling his vvrath any more against us by inflicting on us the heauy and due punishment vvhich our sinnes haue deserued THE RELATION OF THE Sicknes and Death of the most Illustrious HENRY Prince of Walles c. TOGETHER With the opening of his Body PRINCE HENRY in the nineteenth yeare of his age being naturally very hott accustomed to bleede very oftentimes at the nose aboundantly yea and without exercise but much more after any violent exercising of the body this naturall excretion hauing been stopt these three monethis bypast the last summer of this yeare 1612. being excessiue in degree continuance of heat more then any that now liue in England had euer seene hauing continually wearied his body with extreme exercices and mouing at hunting in the heat of the day with riding with playing at tinnish and consequently hauing oftentimes chafed his blood after an extraordinary maner which hauing been stirred in the morning was accustomed not to setle againe all the day long And moreouer hauing eaten fruit some what excessiuely chiefly Melons and Grapes that were not fully ripe hauing often filled himselfe with fish and with Oysters both raw and dressed with fire at euery meale three or foure dayes in the weeke finally to coole the burning heat that troubled his body in the Summer hauing as often as occasion would serue w. shed himselfe in the ryver after supper with a full stomack remaining in the water for some houres together After all these disorders in end hee fell sicke at Richmond the tenth day of October 1612. The two next dayes after he had two fits with shivering and heat without any sweat following after Which being perceiued by his ordinary Physician he hauing ordained and caused to giue him an ordinary remollitive glyster simply without any loosing medicine after a gentle operation the humors hauing been stirred which were in great quantity in this full body upon the morow after he had 25. stooles and there came from him a great quantity of rotten and stinking choler and at the latter end some flegme The voyding hereof did good but the roote remaining fast and the body being toyled with unquietnesse and lassitudes and with an interrupted and broken sleepe his Highnes his Physician thought it good to purge him with the pills which he was accustomed to giue before meales which wrought foure or fiue litle times weakly with great asswaging Neuerthelesse after a few dayes the disease increasing by litle and litle and nature yeelding to the causes of the disease although his Highnes did striue against his paine labouring to couer the same and shake it off upon the fifth day after the first

vvith such due respect and discretion as it is rare to be found in one of his ranke and age He vvas brought op even from his cradle by an ancient vertuous and seuere Lady to vvit the olde Countesse of Marre vvho kept all such as vvere about him in avve yet did hee not onely reverence her but also loue her most dearly Towards the right honorable the Earle of Marre sonne to the said Lady who had the principall charge and custodie of him he alwayes shewed himselfe most louing and duetifull in so much as before his comming to Engeland the Earle deliuering him in presence of the Councell to the charge of other Lordes appointed to vviate on him in his journey hee suddainly imbracing the said Earle brust foorth into teares albeit hee was knowen to weepe as litle as any child whatsoeuer Next his Parents he was alwayes most loving to his Schoolemaister Sr. Adam Newton notwithstanding that the said Sr. Adam Newton did alwayes preferre his owne dutie and his Highnes well doing before the pleasing of his fancies I need not record with what courtesie and discretion he behaued himselfe to all others seeing all that knew him doe witnesse the same The seeds and buddes of Princely Vertues haue appeared in him euen from his most tender yeares His naturall inclination to Iustice did shew it selfe continually in that amongst his Pages and other young Gentelmen placed about him he did most grace and fauour such as euen by men of greatest judgement were thought to be of best behauiour and desert wherein also may be perceiued more judgement then is incident to the age of a child His courage was alwayes seene in that he did weepe as litle as any child When hee was verie young hauing hurt both his hands with a fall in such sort that they bledde albeit the smart which he felt wrong from him some teares yet did he rise up in the meane time smyling and as it were dissembling his hurt At another time he was so hurt in the shin as it was scarcely cured in a moneth after yet being then asked whether any thing ailed him he answered nothing and ran up and downe playing him as before An other token of his courage was that being verie young he tooke great delight in the sound of Drummes and Trumpets yea and of his Pieces both small and great beeing shot neare to him When he was scarcely seauen yeares of age a boy of good courage almost a yeare older then his Highnes falling by accident to buffets with him and doing the worst he could his Highnes both had the upperhand of him when they were parted a sunder and loued the same boy euer after the better for his courage It was a great token of temperance in him that in his diet he was naturally moderate and lesse dainty then children use to be yea he was easily persuaded by such as either for their place about him or for his opinion of their vertue and judgement had credit with him to forbeare either meate or other thing wherein he tooke greatest delight In patience he exceeded all others as this historie following doth amply declare Being at a certaine time at his house of Woodstock intending one day to ryde abroad a hunting betimes in the morning and the time beeing come and he ready for his Bootes his Shoemaker by mischance had made one of them too strait for which cause divers that stood by in the meane while checked him very sharply labouring with all to stirre up his Highnes against him yet he would by no meanes so do but verie coldly and mildly commanded him to go speedily and make it a litle vvyder So he went forth leauing his Maister onely with one boote who sate thus in his chaire for the space of an houre and more waiting for his Shoemakers backcomming and talking all the time merrilie with those that were about him which in the meane while did shew themselves verie impatient and would gladly haue had the Prince to be the like At last the Shoemaker hauing brought backe the Boote for his Highnes not only did he not chide him but contrariwise looked on him with a cherefull countenance which made them all amased together with the Shoemaker himselfe who expected nothing lesse then such a fauorable aspect and came all sweating and trembling for feare as he had verie good cause to do Did he not herein vanquish and surmount himselfe He promised nothing rashly or unaduisedly to any one but if once hee had been induced to ingadge himselfe any wayes hee would be sure to performe what once hee had promised which by this example is manifest One of his houshold seruants to whom he had promised a better place then that which he then possessed and with time had forgotten the same promise and this servant labouring hard with his Highnes by the meanes of his friends to attaine to the place that was promised to him the time being then veri fit and convenient for the performing thereof At first he denied that euer he had promised any such thing hauing with time quite forgotten the mater but in end his handwrit being produced and the promise signed with his owne hand hee confessed his fault freely and immediatly without any delay caused him to be svvorne in the place vvich he had promised to him Hovvbeit this illustrious Prince in diuers particular actions did testifie both his great charitie and liberalitie as tovvards the poore and indigent tovvards his domesticall seruants and others and by contributing largelie tovvards the building and reparation of Churches and manie other vvorkes yet I vvill only produce these three testimonies of his liberalitie The first is concerning that vvich he gave to a certaine straunger a Frenchman by nation vvho stiled himselfe the Kings Professor of the French tongue and had indeed some little pension of his Majestie for this same purpose This Professor hauing crept into some favour vvith the Prince his Chamberleyne prevailed vvith him so farre that at last hee persuaded him to speake to his Highnes for him that he might haue some litle pension graunted to him as he had of his Majestie vvhich at first his H s vvould not graunt saying that he had nothing to do vvith him Notvvitstanding Mr Chamberleyne follovving closse his sute and beseeching him to take some pittie on him sith he vvas a stranger and had but small meanes to liue on his H s at length ansvvered saying Hovvbeit I am no vvayes bound to giue him any thing yet to do you pleasure and because he is a stranger and a Frenchman I shall giue him vvhat you shall think fit and vvithin a short time after he gaue him such a pension as pleased him verie vvell The second testimony is this A good Poët and right honest man presenting him a small poëme he receiued it verie graciouslie and vvilled a Gentleman that had his purse to bestovv on him some token of his gracious acceptance the Gentleman

you are my Lords Sonne and my Kousin but if you be not better conditioned I will loue such a one better naming the childe that complained of him The first time that hee went out of the towne of Stirling to meet the King seeing a little without the gate of the towne a stake of corne in proportion to a topp wherewith he had wont to play he said to some that were with him Loe there a goodly topp whereupon one of them saying why doe you not then play with it He answered sett you it to me and I will play with it Being asked very young what Instruments of Musicke hee liked best he answered a Trumpet On a time that he saw some hunting on a Deere being asked whether he loved that hunting well He answered yes but I loue another kinde of hunting better One asking him what maner of hunting that was hee answered hunting of theeues and rebelles with braue men and horses And turning him to one of his Pages descended of Highland Parents who were bruted to be theeues he added and such theeues as I take shall be hanged the great ones higher then the rest and you Sirra if you bee a theefe highest of all Once in his childhood in a merry humour taking up Strawberies with two spoones when one might suffice hee said the one I use as a Rappier and the other as a Dagger Being asked of a Nobleman whether after his Father hee had rather be King of England or Schotland he demanded whether of them was best and answere being made that it was England then said he would I haue both A controversy for sport being stirred up by the King his Majesty betwixt two the one of whom seruing him in good place by a nickname was called a Tailler and loued very well his liquor the other was knowne to bee a tall Trencherman they were both neare falling together by the eares when as the Prince was willed by the King to make an agreement betweene them which agreement some that were by said must be written and sealed by them Whereunto the Prince answered then must W. M. this was he which hath the nickename of a taillor seal it with chalke for he can not write his name and then I will agree them upon condition that M. G. this was the tall Trencherman goe into the celler and drinke with W. M. and that W. M. make a cloakbag for M. G. to cary his victuals in Eating in the Kings presence a dish of Milk his Majesty asked him why he eated so much childes meat Sir quot he it is mans meate also And immediatly after fed well of a Partrich the King said to him that meate will make you a coward Whereunto he answered though it be a cowardly bird yet it shall not make me a coward The King asking him whether hee loved Englishmen or Frenchmen better hee answered Englishmen The King demanded the cause thereof because said he I am a kin to moe noble persones of England then of Fraunce Then the King asked him whether he loued the English or the Germanes better hee answered the English Whereunto the King replying that his Mother was a German hee answered Sir you are the cause thereof At the same time his Majestie asked him upon some mention made of Queene Elisabeth whether she had anie children he answered hee understoode of none And hath she none said the King that may bee called her sonne hee said yes Sir your selfe and who nixt after me said his Majestie Sir said he your Sonne Another standing by saying that was Duke Charles no Sir said his Highnes it must bee the eldest wherein his discretion and modestie in not once naming himselfe is worth the noting On a certaine time his Highnes wearing white shoes one that resorted sometimes to him said that he longed to kisse his feete whereunto his Highnes answered Sir I am not the Pope The other replying that he would not kisse the Popes foote unles it were to byte off his great too his H ● answered if you were in Rome you would be gladde to kisse his feete without byting of his great too Some one reporting to him how the French King had saide that as wel his Bastard as the Bastard of Normandie might conquere England I will bee at eares with him said his Highnes if he go about any such matter Some of his Seruants running to breake their faste and returning after a quicke dispatch being asked what they had been doing said they Wee were at our disiune One who stood by said that word is French and that the right English was breakfast it may so bee called indeede said his Highnes for you breakefast to it It being told him by some of his seruants in a house where once he lay how some of them had gone to bedd without their supper through the fault of some pinching Officers of the house he seemed at that instant to take no great notice but the Lady of the house the nixt day comming to visit him whiles he was turning a booke that had manie pictures whereof one was of some that were painted sitting at a feast he said to her Madame I inuite you to a feast She smiling asked him Wat feast it was he answered to this feast What said she to a painted feast No better is that said he which is made in this house to some about mee One who was present and had heard his Seruants complaine before yet not guessing what he meaned asked him if he understoode not that of some persones figured in the Tapistrie of the Chamber no said he you know well enough who I meane In Sir Thomas Sommerset and Sir Henry Goodyeares presence a litle before his iourney to England the Earle of Marre said unto him Sir you heare how goodly and how rich a countrey England is yet Sir considering that you haue been borne and brought up in Scotland if I may be so bold let me aske you which of both countreys you loue best Whereunto he answered My Lord after I haue been there a while I will tell you One who was fatt and corpulent being by a Nobleman recommended to his Majestie for a good huntsman yet said his Highnes standing by it seemeth thereby that he loueth Venison verie well Whill he was telling a certaine Nobleman something that he could haue done but that his Schoolemaister was the cause why he did it not one who had some credit about him mistaking what he said as if he would haue layde some fault committed by himselfe upon his Tutor said to the Nobleman It is the Prince his maner to lay his owne fault upon others Hereat the Prince smyling taxed his impertinency saying Sir indeed I might haue learned that lesson of you A certaine courtly and merrily conceipted Lady who had a husband whom shee could not well enjoy in presence of as pleasant a conceipted Gentleman who was then a widower jesting with his Highnes requested him that he would send her

forcing of women and wounding of some men to the danger of their liues but that they were spared by the people for that the said Duke was the Queenes Brother his Highnes said whosoeuer other spared them my Vncle himselfe should cause them to bee hanged Some of the young Gentlemen about him inuiting one another to looke on some faire Gentlewoman that passed by and saying to one that founde fault vvith them for so doeing that it vvas no sinne to looke on them his Highnes said of looking commeth vvorse and the Scripture sayeth Averte oculos tuos ne videant vanitatem A certaine Physician telling him on a time that he rode to take the ayre that he did ride too fast he ansvvered must I ride by rules of Physicke The same man a litle after seeing a Beacon neare hand and saying it vvas in Latine Specula his Highnes lifting up from the sadle his hinder part and turning it tovvards him said Hoc speculum for you Maister Doctor The Prince using in hott vveather to eate sometimes of a colde Capon rosted the morning or evening before one day that happened to be colder then the dayes immediately precedent had been Mr. Doctor tolde him that vvas no good meat for so cold vveather Then see you Mr. Doctor said he that my cookes are no good Astronomers The same Physician telling him at the same time that it vvas unvvholsome for him to haue eaten hot meat colde meat together I can not helpe that novv said his Highnes though they should both runne at tilt together in my belly One of his Highnes Carvers by chance hauing cutt his Highnes finger and sucking out the blood thereof with his mouth that it might heale the more easily his Highnes being no wayes displeased with him therefore said to him in pleasant maner If which God forbid my Father I and the rest of his Issue and kinred should faile you might claime the Crowne for you haue the blood Royall in you His Highnes at a certaine play hauing chosen his young Gentlemen to play with him and excluded his Seruants it chanced that one of them well growne in yeares comming where they played his Highnes called him to play with the young Gentlemen Some that stood by asking his Highnes why he admitted him rather then others Because said his Highnes he may lawfully be of our number for Bis pueri senes The Kings Majestie upon some mention made of his youngest daughter Lady Marie saying to the Prince that he had been once a girle for such indeede at the first the Midwife fained him to be his Highnes said to some that stood by It was onlie vir non Rex At the solemnitie of S. George whilst the noble Knights of the Garter stood in a rowe washing after supper his Highnes being Lieutenant of the order said to some that stood by Is it not strange that I should be Lieutenant hauing 23. brethren all men Some of his Highnes young Gentlemen together with himselfe imitating in sport the curvetting and high going of horses one that stood by said they were like a companie of horses Which his Highnes noting said Is it not better to resemble a horse which is a courageous beast then a dull and slow going Asse as you are His Highnes said to a fatt and corpulent Gentlewoman who asked of him some Venison should I giue you venison to make you fatter that haue neede to be made leaner His maner at the play at the Basse being to choose out of euerie couple one represented by one of two things and being asked whether he would haue the white Rose or the red he answered I must haue them both for they haue been so long and so well joyned together as they must not be separated At a solemne supper a merry honest man of a swarfe and fat complexion whom he called his page whom he bid come neare to the table and he saying that he durst not come neare least he should be taken for a dish of meat then must it be said his Highnes for a gamond of bacon A dish of Gelee being set before his Highnes in forme of a crowne with three Lilies the said merry man said to his Highnes that that dish was worth a crowne His Highnes answered I would I had that crowne The other replying that to be a great wish how can it be great said his Highnes whenas you value it but at a crowne The same man looking at a picture something lasciuiously made and some saying that he blushed others that hee blushed not thereat his Highnes jeasting at his swarfe and grimme face said to him Pull off your visard that wee may see whether you blush or not At Greenwich his Highnes missing at his table some meate that he fancied and was wont to haue and it being told him that the Officers said there vvas no more allowance thereof he ansered yet let them send me more and let them set it on my head Once in the same place some telling his Highnes whilst he vvas at dinner hovv an undiscreet Officer had refused to send him some fevv Cherries because said he there vvas no more allovvance then of those vvhich vvere send him already his Highnes vvithout shovv of displeasure looking to a Trout that he had disposed to eate of and seeing no vineger on the table asked is there no allowance of vineger neither Some Abricots being sent to him he presented them to the Kings Majesty who tasting of them and saying they were not ripe his Highnes answered I can not mend that Sir they grew not in my Garden Maintaining the precedency of Oxford against a Doctor of Cambridge and the said Doctor alleadging for the honor of Cambridge that the King had thence great Statesmen and Councellors his Highnes answered As you of Cambridge bragge of the Kings Councell and wisdome so can wee of Oxford of his Treasure Whereupon the Doctor asking him whether Treasure were to be compared with Wisdome His Highnes answered him with another demaund to wit whether he had rather haue more wisdome and learning or a good benefice His Physician telling him that it was unwholsome for him to eat colde meate his Highnes answered that he had a hot stomacke His Schoolmaister willing to further him in other exercises as well as learning and for that cause using with him the practise of the Pike on a time when he tossed the same before his Highnes failed insome points Whereat his Highnes telling him his faults jeasted with him which his said schoolmaister misliking in some maner said that it vvas an euill humor Maister said his Highnes I take that humor of you His Schoolemaister replying that it became not a Prince Then doth it vvorse become a Princes Schoolemaister said his Highnes An old man some vvhat cholerick vvho taught him to daunce finding fault vvith him and other young Noblemen for failing in the measures and taxing them as careles boyes his Highnes said unto him