Days near Paris . There Charles V. was born (1337) andpassed the greater part of his life, and there Queen Isa-beau de Baviere enjoyed her orgies. Henry V., of England, after conquering the greaterpart of France, died at Vincennes, in his thirty-fourthyear. Hung be the heavens with black, yield day to night ! King Henry the Fifth too famous to live long !England neer lost a king of so much worth. Shakspeare, Hen, VI. Act. i. sc. i. 244 DA YS NEAR PARIS One of the doctors, from whom he asked for the truth, flunghimself on his knees by his bed and told him to think of his soul,for he had only tw
Days near Paris . There Charles V. was born (1337) andpassed the greater part of his life, and there Queen Isa-beau de Baviere enjoyed her orgies. Henry V., of England, after conquering the greaterpart of France, died at Vincennes, in his thirty-fourthyear. Hung be the heavens with black, yield day to night ! King Henry the Fifth too famous to live long !England neer lost a king of so much worth. Shakspeare, Hen, VI. Act. i. sc. i. 244 DA YS NEAR PARIS One of the doctors, from whom he asked for the truth, flunghimself on his knees by his bed and told him to think of his soul,for he had only two hours to live ; Henry summoned his con-fessor and other churchmen, and ordered them to recite the sevenpenitential psalms. And when they came to the Benigne fac,Domine, where the words mwi Hierusalem occur, he said aloudthat he had the intention, after he had placed the kingdom ofFrance in peace, to go and conquer Jerusalem, if it had been thepleasure of his Creator to let him live his life. Then, as if to re-. DONJON OF VINCENNES. assure himself in this solemn hour, he recalled the fact that hiswar with France had been approved by the most holy persons ofall the prelates of England, and that he had waged it withoutoffending God or putting his soul in peril. And, briefly there-after, he gave up the ghost, August 31, 1^22:—Henri Martin, Hist, de France: His body was cut in pieces, and boiled in a cauldron tillthe flesh separated from the bones ; the water was thrown into acemetery, and the bones and flesh were placed in a lead coffin, ViNCENNES 245 with many kinds of spices and odoriferous things, and smelledwell.—Juvenaldes Ursins. Louis XI. used Vincennes as a state prison, but hissuccessor continued to reside there occasionally, and in1574 it witnessed the miserable death-bed of Charles IX.,in his twenty-fourth year, red from the Massacre of His end was so that even the Huguenot writersdisplay some pity. His short and broken slumbers were troub
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