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Towards the end of the year 1820 he walked with difficulty, and required assistance even to reach a chair in his garden. He became nearly incapable of the slightest action; his legs swelled; the pains in his side and back were increased; he was troubled with nausea, profuse sweats, loss of appetite, and was subject to frequent faintings. "Here I am, Doctor," said he one day, "at my last cast.
Tryphena would have it that he sank from taking nothing but tisanes made of herbs; and that if she might only have given him a good hot sack posset, he would have recovered; but he shuddered at the thought, and when a doctor came from Saumur, he bled the poor old gentleman, faintings came on, and he died the next day. I was glad Tryphena's opinion was only expressed in English.
When Bunyan was in prison, under sentence to be hung, all his thoughts were, not how to escape, but, how so to suffer as to glorify God; "I thought with myself if I should make a scrabbling shift to clamber up the ladder, yet I should either with quaking or other symptoms of faintings, give occasion to the enemy to reproach the way of God and his people for their timorousness.
His voice to me has been most sweet; and His countenance I have more desired than they that have most desired the light of the sun. His Word I did use to gather for my food, and for antidotes against my faintings. 'He has held me, and hath kept me from mine iniquities; yea, my steps hath He strengthened in His way.
"I trust so," replied the lady, vainly striving to draw comfort from his words. "Oh, Nicholas! you do not know the temptations I am exposed to in this chamber the difficulty I experience in keeping my thoughts fixed on one object the distractions I undergo the mental obscurations the faintings of spirit the bodily prostration the terrors, the inconceivable terrors, that assail me.
Oh! the horrible details that that preacher gave of that day's sport, of the lashings, and faintings, and revivals, with washes of strong brine, the prayers for mercy, and the recurring moan! "I no curse Jesus, Massa! I no curse Jesus; Jesus die for me, Massa; I die for Jesus?" As the sun went down Jesus took him, and his merciful master had sold a worthless nigger for one hundred dollars.
Struck with horror at her situation, Miss Warwick shrunk from the grasp of the constable, and leaned motionless on the back of a chair. "Come, my angel, as they call you, I think the lady there has brandy enough, if you want spirits all the fits and faintings in Christendom won't serve you now. I'm used to the tricks o' the trade.
They do not firmly enough believe his sayings, neither his promises, nor his threatenings, as appeareth too oft upon the one hand, by their faintings and fears, and upon the other hand, by their carelessness and loose walk. They make not use of him, in all cases as they ought.
He left his favourite island, and went upon the continent; and at last, fixed at the promontory of Mise'num. There he fell into faintings, which all believed to be fatal. 14.
Her eyes glared at him like the eyes of a wild animal. Furies, hysterics, faintings, denials, threats Jackling endured them all by turns. It was enough for him that his desperate guess of the evening before, had hit the mark on the morning after. When she had completely exhausted herself he returned to the experiment which he had already tried with the maid.
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