The British nation a history / by George MWrong . Henry VI. 210 THE BRITISH NATION spirit and decision, but favouritism and incompetencemarked liis rule, and his real virtues were the mild onesof a scliolarly saint. His life was innocent and his speechrestrained ; Forsooth and forsooth and By St. Johnwere his most emphatic expressions. He watched anx-. (iiArKi. .IF Kinos , (.\.mi;1! by Henry VI, completed liy Henry \U. iously the morals of those about liini, and sometimes worea hair shirt under his royal robes. It is not wholly truethat mens evil works live after them and t
The British nation a history / by George MWrong . Henry VI. 210 THE BRITISH NATION spirit and decision, but favouritism and incompetencemarked liis rule, and his real virtues were the mild onesof a scliolarly saint. His life was innocent and his speechrestrained ; Forsooth and forsooth and By St. Johnwere his most emphatic expressions. He watched anx-. (iiArKi. .IF Kinos , (.\.mi;1! by Henry VI, completed liy Henry \U. iously the morals of those about liini, and sometimes worea hair shirt under his royal robes. It is not wholly truethat mens evil works live after them and tluit the goodones perish. The vices of Henrys enemies, Edward IVand Richard III, are now but a memory; the good deedsof the boy king, who, when only eighteen, founded EtonCollege, still mean much to Britain. Henry, living closeby at Windsor, watched Eton, as he did also his otherfoundation. Kings College, Cambridge, with loving chose tlie Eton masters himself, and delighted in gen-tle sermonizings to the boys. The doom of the House of Lancaster ripened helped to destroy itself. Henry V left two brothers,who by working together might, perhaps, have nuide A CENTURY OF CIVIL AND FOREIGN WAR 211 uncles Bedfordand Gloucesterrule the king- their line strong. That they failed to do so was not thefault of the elder, John, Duke of Bedf
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