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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A34595	The life and death of our late most incomparable and heroique prince, Henry Prince of Wales A prince (for valour and vertue) fit to be imitated in succeeding times. Written by Sir Charles Cornvvallis knight, treasurer of his Highnesse houshold.	Cornwallis, Charles, Sir, d. 1629.	1641 (1641)	Wing C6330; ESTC R221447	36,256	114

all sorts of rare musique chiefely the trumpet and drumme in limming and painting carving in all sorts of excellent and rare Pictures which hee had brought unto him from all Countries What should I say more of him over and above all these things hee had a certaine kind of extraordinary unspeakeable excellency my fraile penne and dull stile not being able to expresse the same gathered out of question by him long agoe from the plentifull Garden of the King his Fathers all admired Bazilicondor●n long since in his youth dedicated unto him I dare sweare none will thinke an ill thought much lesse speake an ill word of him unlesse it bee some Ianus-faced Machivillian or hollow hearted Gunpowderers who as they would have blowne up King Progeny and State cannot choose now but barke against him who was a terrour to all the Papists in Christendome As hee was a Man no question but hee had imperfectious as others otherwise hee could not have conversed with men which I professe I neither knew nor delighted to search after or if I had you know of all others I am rather boud to cover and conceale the same with Shem and Japhet then with Ham to shew his nakednesse If I were able yet certainely whatsoever they were such a number of noble vertues did cover and weigh downe the same eclipsing their light that they could not easily bee perceived unlesse it were perhaps by some maliciously bent who though they might have gathered great store of honey have rather chosen like droanes to open the gall whom I also leave to the gall of bitternesse untill it consume them Wherefore now since his Soule resteth in Heaven whereof I intreat you doubt not let us also leave him For his good life in generall his unfaigned love to Religion his love to good men his sound and saving knowledge and practice of the same his attentive and reverent hearing of the word his humble flexible heart easily cast downe and drawne by the same with many other good things which were in him are sure signes of the favour of God and consequently of his salvation To which if wee consider with what innumerable prayers and strong cries his soule was attended unto Heaven wee may rest fully satisfied of his felicity For although the extremity of paine from the beginning of his sicknesse did as it were stupifie and bereave him of sence that hee could not give those wished testimonies to the World at full the Lord choosing to try him in the furnace of affliction yet since wee shall bee judged not according to our death but according to our life although his death in such an extremity as is shewed was very good wee may certainely conclude that his Soule now praiseth God Wherefore when we misse him where we were wont to see him let us lift up our mindes to a higher Watch-tower remembring that his Soule now resteth in Heaven where all cares troubles soares sickenesses crosses and afflictions shall no more annoy him where the feares jarres jealousies discontentments mutenies uproares dissentions of State shall never vex him where he shall hunger no more thirst no more desire no more having all tears wiped from his eies in place of those fraile ones which could not here indure the sight of the Candle now beholding him whose eyes are tenne thousand times brighter then the Sunne following the Lambe whithersoever hee goeth and in the Heaven of Heavens injoying the blessed fruition of his God in the company of Millions of his Saints and Angels waiting for the full revelation and felicitie of the Sonnes of God and renovation of us all when God shal be All in All where let us leave him of whom we are not worthy untill we be gathered unto him admiring his incomprehensible Wisdome which did bereave us untill he let us know by experience how hee will bring light out of darkenesse For since he is goodnesse it selfe his will whatsoever it be must needs be good And I pray you what how many how great and how wonderfull things hath the Almighty done with this one blow in humbling of some curbing the pride of others casting some downe and againe in raising up of others letting all see as in a Mirrour the vaine inconstancie of Greatnesse making some others inexcusable if they receive no good from so sensible a Lesson with infinite moe knowne onely to the All-sufficient All-seeing Majestie Let us therefore admire the infinite and incomprehensible Wisdome of Almighty God which so soone translated him from this Vale of darknesse and misery into that marvellous joy and light althogh it seem strange unto our blind eies For what know we but that the boyling head-strong passions of youth evill company which corrupteth good manners the raines of Liberty the corruption of time with infinite other inticements whereunto flesh and blood are prone might have corrupted him when dying with a consumed body and a more corrupted Soule he might with an evil Conscience though ful of years have gone to the grave with farre more hatred loaden with innumerable more sinnes then now he did when by the contrary with the love prayers and teares of all hee was attended unto Heaven Thus have I beene bold to trouble you and out of my love for satisfying your curiosity to exceede the bounds of a short Letter which if you mildly Censure with an impartiall judgement pardoning and excusing what you finde amisse you shall encourage me ever to remaine as still I am Your assured Freind Charles Cornwallis His frequent swimming immediatly after supper was most pernitious to his health for it stopt his bleeding at Nose whereupon the bloud putrifying engendred that fatall Feber which followed Doctor ●●yerne A Lunar Rainbow very rare and commonly fatall V. Arist. Metor * Iust over this Chamber wherein he dyed did the end of the fatall Rainebow aforementioned hang as Doctor Mayerne observed * Notwithstanding the Prince was seriously remembred to commend himselfe into the hands of God before this by Doctor Mayerne who found his resolution therein to bee most heavenly and Divive