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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

stood by I would rather haue my Pied-Admirall againe aliue then all these painted beasts I had almost forgotten his Barriers which I will heare set downe after his witty and pleasant speeches The sixteenth yeare of his age being come the time of his inuestment in the Principality of Walles and Cornuall he did aduance his owne Title and Right so farre as with modesty he might which presently was gently and louingly entertained and graunted of his Majesty with the consent of the right honorable the high court of Parliament the fourth of Iune following being appointed for that solemne action The Christ masse before which his Highnes not only for his owne recreation but also that the world might know what a braue Prince they were likely to enjoy under the name of Meliades Lord of the Isles an ancient title due to the first borne of Scotland did in his name by some appointed for the same of purpose strangely attired accompanied with Drummes and Trumpets in the Chamber of presence before the King and Queene and in presence of the whole Court deliuer a challenge to all the Knights of Great Britaine in two speeches the relation whereof were out of purpose but the summe was That Meliades their noble Maister boyling withan earnest desire to try the valour of his young yeares in forraine countreys and to know where Vertue and Valour Triumphed most had sent them abroad to espye the same who after their long trauels in all countryes and returne shewing how now here in any continent saue in the fortunate Isle of Great Britaine they had found his wishes which ministring mater of exceeding joy to their young Meliades who as they said could lineally deriue his pedegree from the famous Kings of this Isle was the cause that he now sent to present the first fruits of his chevalry at his Majestyes feet thereafter turning with a short speech to her Majestye next to the Earles Lordes and Knights excusing their Lord in this their short and suddaine warning and lastly to the Ladies they after humble deliuery of their cartell concerning time place conditions number of weapons and assaillaunts tooke their leaue departing solemnly as they entred Now began euery where preparation to be made for this great fight and happy did he think himselfe who should be admitted as a defendant much more assaillant At last to encounter his Highnes with his fix assaillants 58. defendants consisting of Earles Barons Knights and Esquieres were appointed and chosen 8. defendants to one assaillant euery assaillant being to fight by turnes 8. speciall times fighting twice euery time with push of Pike and Sword twelue stroakes at a time after which the barre for separation was to be let downe untill a fresh on-set The great night of this solemnity now approaching his Highnes in his owne lodging in the Christmasse time did feast all the Earles Barons and Knights assaillants and defendants untill the great Twelfth appointed night on vvhich this great fight vvas to be performed vvhich being come his Highnes to the great vvonder of all the beholders did admirably fight his part giuing and receiuing that night 32. pushes of Pikes and aboue 360. of strookes with swordes which is scarce credible in so young yeares enough to assure the world that great Britaines braue HENRY asp●ed to immortality Against the morow after the said fight was also prouided a magnificke feast at his Highnes house of St. Iames at which their Majesties his Highnes Brother and Sister with all other the Earles Lords and Knights of the Court were present where after supper according as before they had been judged his Highnes gaue three prizes to the three best deseruing namely to the right Honorable the Earle of Montgommery one and to Sir Thomas Darcy and Sir Robert Gordon Knights the other two I will adde one Obseruation more drawne out of mine owne experience that out of this one particular it may appeare in generall what opinion our neighbour nations had of his H s and how much the greatnes of his name had anxiously perplexed many of their mindes which is this I being in Fraunce about some 9. yeares agoe and with others trauelling along the Riuer of Loire betwixt Orleans and Tours there fortuned to bee in our companie a Gentleman of the citie of Bourdeaux who upon some discours that we had together of English affaires told me that those of that citie a little while before his Highnes his death were mightily affrayed of some invasion to be made by him hauing for a long time before together with the whole countrey of Gascony conceiued no small jaelousie and feare of his high and generous Spirit the cause of this late feare being for that the haruest quarter at which time the English and Scotish Shippes use to arriue there to prouide themselues with wines being then spent and the winter season come already and no Shippes arriuing as they had wont to doe the more vigilant and wary sort did verily suspect that the sea ports of England had been shutt vp and all Shippes stayed for some great enterprise which they could not thinke to be intended otherwise then against them and that by the Prince his meanes only as fearing no other And moreouer that at that time the citie was not prouided to indure a siege chiefly through want of corne which they could not prouide to any purpose without some time and leasure namely since the same could not be effected without some show of feare which they were loath to shew openly for discouraging of the citizens and doubting that they might in end haue been laughed at if it should haue come to passe that they had mistaken the matter as it fell out indeed For at lenth though very late in the yeare the Shippes so long expected arriued after the accustomed peaceable manner some quantity of wheate was brought downe the ryver of Garumne by accident and not long after they had certaine newes of his H s his death All which things falling out almost together did banish all feare out of their mindes and suddainly filled their hearts with ioy being rid of all danger through the death of the Prince And the foresaid Gentleman affirmed constantly that although they were exceeding glad to be thus deliuered from so great a feare and to liue in peacable security as they had wont to doe yet on the other part they could not chuse but be sory for the losse of such a braue and hopefull young Prince who in his youthead had already become so famous and redoubted and had made so many nations to admire him and stand in feare of him I might set downe many moe Obseruations and proofes of all maner of Vertues wherewith this Heroicall Prince was richly adorned If I did not labour to eshew prolixity fearing that this Treatise might grow to bigge To be short therefore I vvill only in fevv vvords adde that He vvas most vertuous all his lifetime charitable and pittifull

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

asking him vvhether a couple of Iacobus vvould not serue Fy for shame said his Highnes give him at least ten pieces The third vvas that some fevv vveekes before his sicknes considering vviselie that some of his cheef Gentlemen vvhich vvere in eminent places and neare to his person had but small meanes to maintaine the rank and place they vvere in to cherish them in this their vvant and make them goe on the more cheerfully in their seruice and moreouer that they might not pretend that they were driuen through any necessity to be importune in begging of such suits at his Highnes as could not conveniently be graunted he provided them with honest reasonable pensions during their liues and if he had lived a litle longer intended to proceed further in this kinde of bounteous and provident liberality but being prevented by untimely death none of these worthy projects could take any effect This is a notable example both of his liberality and of his wary and Princely providence He was exceeding magnifick and stately in all his doings and principally in feasting of great persones such as was the young Duke of Brounswick the young Landgrave of Hasse the Duke of Wirtemberg and others which he feasted most royally giuing them all maner of contentment that they could haue desired of him And about some foure moneths before his death at his house of Wootstock he made such a sumptuous and great feast to the Kings Majestie his Father that after his Majestie had considered vewed well the tables and meates set thereon his Gentlemen and Servants richly apparelled and in good order and all things in his house well ordered and gouerned without any disorder or confusion was so much amased at the sight thereof that he was forced to say that he had neuer seen the like before all his lifetime and that he could neuer doe so much in his owne house Concerning his apparell he loued to goe handsome and well cloathed yet without any maner of superfluity or excesse But as for his seruants and Gentlemen that were neare to his person he was some what more curious taking pleasure to see them goe richly apparelled Which he declared sufficiently by this example A certaine Gentleman who had served him a long time before and with others was placed about him in his minority by the Kings Majestie being with the rest of his houshold Servants to be sworne to him ouer againe at the taking up of his house at which time he had free liberty to chuse such Seruants as pleased him best he gaue way to the receauing of all the rest saue only this Gentleman whom he forbade to sweare untill such time as his Father had promised to apparrell him better in time comming and as it was fitting for his place Which his Father hauing once promised to doe at length after that all the rest were sworne he gaue order likewise to admit him to his place He desired also to haue good attendance of his Seruants and to be well serued as it may appeare by this following One of his Sewers comming one day a litle too late to wait when his Highnes had already almost half dined he was asked by him whence he came so late He answered that it was not yet eleuen of the clocke saying so because his maister dined commonly at that houre and no sooner The Prince answered him againe that he would not be serued at an appointed houre only but at all times His modest disposition and naturall hating of vaine ostentation began to shewe it selfe when he was verie young For being taught to handle the Pike and his Teacher instructing him both by word and example to use an affected kind of statelinesse in marching and holding of his hand he learned all other points of him soo well as all men know but in no wayes would he frame himselfe to that affected maner And if sometimes upon earnest intreaty he did offer to use it he would lanch at himselfe and presently returne to his owne more modest and comelie maner And whereas he had learned to daunce soo wel as none of his age being of a Princelie ranke or degree could doe it better yet neuer tooke he much delight therein nor offered himself to daunce but was for the most part intreated thereto by others The like modestie was seen in whatsoeuer he did or spake yet was this his modestie no hinderance to his heroïcall and generous disposition which made him to performe all his exercises best before most companie and greatest personages as namely he neuer tossed his Pyke better then in presence of his Majestie and great Ambassadours of whom was the Constable of Castile From his generous mind it proceeded that he delighted in handling of his armes and in such other manly and martiall exercises hence also did arise his affection to learning wherein he so well profited as I haue not heard of manie Princes of his age that could doe better In quicke apprehension and memorie few of his age went beyond him but none in judgement understanding of that which was taught him When he beganne to haue some knowledge of the Latine tongue being admonished to chuse himselfe a Posie out of sundrie sentences gathered by his scholemaister for this use he read many that were good but passed ouer them without chusing till he came to this sentence of Silius Italicus Fax mentis honestae gloria Renowne is a furtherer of an-honest mind whereof himselfe made choise And to say the truth none among them all did better fit him The Kings Majestie asking him which were best verses that he had learned in the first booke of Aeneides he answered These Rex erat Aenaeas nobis quo justior alter Nec pietate fuit nec bello major armis In English We had a King Aeneas cald a juster was there none In vertue or in faites of warre or armes could match him one Which indeed is a most excellent commendation concerning the three principall Vertues of a worthy Prince to Wit Pietie Iustice and Valour Reading this vers Tros Rutilusve fuat nullo discrimine habebo Be it Trojan or Italian he no difference will I make He sayd himselfe would make use of the same changing it thus Anglus Scotusve fuat nullo discrimine habebo Be it English or Scot he no differens will I make In which change he respected the commendable qualities of unpartiall judgement and affection not the qualities of the verse which he knew to be erroneous I come nowe to the rehearsall of sundry of his pleasant and witty speaches during his young and tender yeares wherein the pregnancie of his witt and vertuous disposition doe appeare When he was but a little past seaven yeares of age a sonne of the Earle of Marre something younger then himselfe falling out with one of his Pages to whom as his Highnes was informed he had done some little wrong he reproued him therefore saying I loue you because