"After amassing a considerable fortune he died, sir, of a paralytical stroke, upon the 12th of November last.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Blue Pavilions] Reference

The despair of a great man, who falls a victim to the infernal practices of a subtle traitor who enjoyed his confidence, this English Aesopus represents, by beating his own forehead, and beating like a bull; and, indeed, in almost all his most interesting scenes, performs such strange shakings of the head, and other antic gesticulations, that when I first saw him act, I imagined the poor man laboured under the paralytical disorder, which is known by the name of St. Vitus’s dance.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle] Reference