PRINCE EDWARD ad 



1270. 

 you in me, can I not be healed ? tell me the trueth, 

 be ye not afrayd. Whereupon one sayd unto him, and 

 it like your Grace you may be healed, we mistrust not, 

 but yet it will be very painfull for you to suffer. May 

 suffering (sayd he againe) restore health ? yea sayth the 

 other, on paine of losing my head. Then sayd the 

 prince, I commit my selfe unto you, doe with me what 

 you thinke good. 



Then sayd one of the Physicians, is there any of 

 your Nobles in whom your Grace reposeth special trust t 

 to whom the prince answered Yea, naming certeine of 

 the Noble men that stood about him. Then sayd the 

 Physician to the two, whom the prince first named, the 

 Lord Edmund, and the lord John Voisie, And doe T/!is lord 

 you also faithfully love your Lord and Prince ? Who ^<^mund u-as 

 answered both, Yea undoubtedly. Then sayth he, take f P['^''' ^is 



, . , 111/ • , • • ,- N brother. 



you away this gentlewoman and lady (meaning his wite) 



and let her not see her lord and husband, i-ill such 

 time as I will you thereunto. Whereupon they tooke 

 her trom the princes presence, crying out, and wrino^ing 

 her hands. Then sayd they unto her. Be you con- 

 tented good Lady & Madame, it is better that one 

 woman should weepe a little while, then that all the 

 realme ot England should weepe a great season. 



Then on the morrow they cut out all the dead and 

 invenimed flesh out of the princes arme, and threw it 

 from them, and sayd unto him : how cheereth your 

 Grace, we promise you within these fifteene dayes you 

 shall shew your selfe abroad (if God permit) upon your 

 horsebacke, whole and well as ever you were. And 

 according to the promise he made the prince, it came 

 to passe, to the no little comfort and admiration of all 

 his subjects. 



When the great Souldan heard hereof, and that the 

 prince was yet alive, he could scarsely beleeve the 

 same, and sending unto him three of his Nobles and 

 Princes, excused himselfe by them, calling his God to 

 witnesse that the same was done neither by him nor his 



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