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son to her bed-side. You know, he was afterwards, the great Henry IVth of France, who gave the Edict of Nantz. He came in deep sorrow, to see his beloved mother, about to die. With a faint voice, she charged him solemnly to maintain the true religion, to take a tender care of the education of his sister, to avoid the society of vicious persons, and not to suffer his soul to be diverted from duty, by the empty pleasures of the world. With patience and even cheerful serenity of countenance, she endured the pains of her disease, and to her mourning friends said, "I pray you not to weep for me. God by this sickness calleth me to the enjoyment of a better life." It was on the 9th of June, 1572,