text: " "I am unfitted for all matters of state--my head is weary my limbs ache my heart burns with a torturing fire--I cannot listen to you now madam " pursued the King languidly; and then seeing that his mother still stood motionless by his side he added with more energy--"Am I then no more a king madam that at my own command I cannot even be left to _die_ in peace?" "It is of your health your safety your life that I would speak " continued Catherine of Medicis unmoved