physician counselled him to the contrarie: but he delighting most in the
meat (though it be in qualitie verie hurtfull to health) would not be
dissuaded from it, so that his stomach being annoied therewith he fell
immediatelie into an ague, [Sidenote: King Henrie departeth this life.]
and so died shortlie after, on the first day of December being as then
about 67. yeares of age after he had reigned 35. yeres, and foure
moneths lacking foure daies. His bodie was conueied into England, and
buried at Reading within the abbey church which he had founded, and
endowed in his life time with great and large possessions. [Sidenote:
_Matth. West._ _Ran. Higd._ _Sim. Dunel._] It is written, that his
bodie, to auoid the stench which had infected manie men, was closed in a
buls hide, and how he that clensed the head died of the sauour which
issued out of the braine.

¶ Thus we sée that euen princes come to the like end by as base meanes
as other inferiour persons; according to that of the poet:
[Sidenote: Horat. lib. car. 1. ode. 28.]
Dant alios furiæ toruo spectacula Marti,
Exitio est auidis mare nautis:
Mista senum ac iuuenum densantur funera, nullum
Sæua caput Proserpina fugit.

And here we haue to note the neglect of the physicians counsell, and
that same ill disposition in diet which the king chose rather to
satisfie, than by restraining it to auoid the danger whereinto he fell.
But this is the preposterous election of vntoward patients, according to
that:
Nitimur in vetitum semper, cupimúsq; negata.

[Sidenote: The issue of king Henrie the first.] Touching his issue, he