. History of France and Normandy, from the earliest times to the revolution of 1848. Citiwns of Paris in the Reign of Charles V CHARLES VI. 161. Charles VI. CHAPTER VI. Unhappy king! even by thy pomp opprest,Like some rude clown for royal pageant drest,Who struts his hour of borrowed state, and thenStrippd of his robes to nothing sinks again—How poor, how less than little art thou grown,Mean in all eyes, and meanest in thine own. Miss Pordbit. D. 1. The last reign was short and prosperous, that onwhich we are about to enter was long and calamitous; , „J1the ambition of the young
. History of France and Normandy, from the earliest times to the revolution of 1848. Citiwns of Paris in the Reign of Charles V CHARLES VI. 161. Charles VI. CHAPTER VI. Unhappy king! even by thy pomp opprest,Like some rude clown for royal pageant drest,Who struts his hour of borrowed state, and thenStrippd of his robes to nothing sinks again—How poor, how less than little art thou grown,Mean in all eyes, and meanest in thine own. Miss Pordbit. D. 1. The last reign was short and prosperous, that onwhich we are about to enter was long and calamitous; , „J1the ambition of the young kings uncles, the licen-tiousness of the nobles, the madness of the king, the crimin-alities of his wife, and a new invasion of the English, pro-duced a series of miseries, if possible worse than any wehave hitherto narrated. Charles VI. was but thirteen yearsold at the time of his fathers death, the regency was entrustedto his uncle the duke of Anjou, but the dukes of Burgundy14* L 102 HISTORY OF FRANCE. and Bourbon were jealous of his authority, and anxiouslyendeavoured to obtain a share in the government. For thispurpose they compe
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