Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: But it was not for mere panegyric that I referred to an almost forgotten volume, but to take from its pages an illustration of the true romance of personal history. I quote it in the quaint and simple language of the narrative. She is speaking of two of her ancestors. " But while the incomparable mother shined in all the humane glory she wished, and had the crown of all earthlie felicity to the full in the enjoyment of the mutual love of her most beloved husband, God in one moment took it away, and by a difficult childbirth alienated her most excellent understanding. After that, not all the art of the best physicians in England could restore her understanding. Yet she was not frantic, but had such a pretty deliration that her ravings were more delightful than many other women's most excellent conversation. Her husband gave himself up to live retired with her as became her condition. The daughters and the rest of the children, as soon as they grew up, were married and dispersed. Thus my parents drove on their age in no less constancy of love to each other, for even that distemper which had destroyed her mind in all things else, had left her love and obedience entire to her husband, and he retained the same fondness and respect for her, after she was distempered, as when she was the glory of her age. He had two beds in the same chamber, and she being a little sick, two women watched by her some time before she died. It was his custom as soon as ever he opened his eyes, to ask how she did; chapter{Section 4but one night he being, as they thought, in a deep sleep, she quietly departed towards the morning. He was that day to have gone a hunting, his usual exercise for his health; and it was his custom to have his chaplain pray with him before he went out; the women fearful to sur...