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His too eager prosecution of these, together 

 with a weakness contracted in his stomach, by 

 the too violent operation of an unhappy medi- 

 cine which he had taken, so far broke the ex- 

 cellency of his constitution, that no art nor 

 skill of the most experienced physicians could 

 repair it. The summer before he died, he went 

 to Bath, in hopes to have retrieved his decay- 

 ing nature by the help of those excellent medi- 

 cinal waters. Some benefit he found by them ; 

 but at his return from thence to Canterbury, 

 falling again to his studies immoderately, and 

 beyond what his strength could bear, he quite 

 undid all they had done. So that, after a long 

 and lingering decay of nature, he was brought 

 at length to the utmost extremity of weakness ; 

 under which languishing for some time, at last 

 in the thirty-first year of his age, on the 5th of 

 March, (that sad day, whereon that never suffi- 

 ciently to be lamented princess, our most in- 

 comparable queen, was interred,) about three 

 o'clock in the morning, he with an humble 

 patience submitted to the stroke of death, 

 cheerfully resigning his departing soul into the 

 most holy hands of his gracious Redeemer. 



^' The loss of so extraordinary a person in 

 the flower of his age, and one from whom the 

 learned world had justly conceived such great 

 expectations of most admirable performances 

 from his indefatigable labours for the advantage 



