. Life and death : being an authentic account of the deaths of one hundred celebrated men and women, with their portraits . and neighbours, that he might take leave of them; when theyhad arrived, and just as the priest was elevating the Host, this poor gentle-man, says Pasquier, leaped forward as well as he was able, on his bed,with his hands clasped, and in this last act, gave up his soul to God. Thedate of his death was the 13th September 1592, and his exact age was fifty-nineyears, six months and three days. His body lies buried in the Chapel of theFeuillans at Bordeaux. The tomb is still i
. Life and death : being an authentic account of the deaths of one hundred celebrated men and women, with their portraits . and neighbours, that he might take leave of them; when theyhad arrived, and just as the priest was elevating the Host, this poor gentle-man, says Pasquier, leaped forward as well as he was able, on his bed,with his hands clasped, and in this last act, gave up his soul to God. Thedate of his death was the 13th September 1592, and his exact age was fifty-nineyears, six months and three days. His body lies buried in the Chapel of theFeuillans at Bordeaux. The tomb is still in good preservation. In the eighteenth chapter of John Florios translation of The Essays ofMontaigne, in the first book, which is entitled, That we should not judgeof our happiness until after our death, it is written: When I judge of othermens lives, I ever respect how they have behaved themselves in their end;and my chiefest study is, I may well demeane myself at my last gaspe, thatis to say, quietly and constantly. Authorities: B. St. John; Montaignes Essays, tr. J. Florio, ed. W. E. Henley; Biographie Queen Elisabeth. From an cnsavhtg by Bcrolini of the picture by /. D. SchUnen. No. 29 The Death of Elizabeth Tudor, Queen of 7th September 1533. Died 24th March 1603. LORD BACON said of Queen Elizabeth: Some of the graver sortmay perhaps aggravate her levities in loving to be admired andcourted; nay, to have love poems made on her, and continuing thishumour longer than was decent for her years, and so it was in the declineof her life, when saddened by the death of her favourite Leicester, that theyoung Earl of Essex, of a character congenial to her own, became a candidatefor her favour. In the waning of her womanhood, her passion for him was tobe the Nemesis following her lifelong levity and misprision of Love. It wasindeed the immediate cause of her death. Happier would it have been forthe Queen and her ill-fated favourite, had they listened to Baco
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