The British nation a history / by George MWrong . Hesky VI. 210 THE BRITISH NATION spirit and decision, but favouritism and incompetencemarked his rule, and his real virtues were the mild onesof a scholarly saint. His life was innocent and his speechrestrained; Forsooth and forsooth and By St. Johnwere his most emphatic expressions. He watched anx-. Chapel of Kings College, by Henry VI, completed by Henry VII. iously the morals of those about him, and sometimes worea hair shirt under his royal robes. It is not wholly truethat mens evil works live after them and that the goodone
The British nation a history / by George MWrong . Hesky VI. 210 THE BRITISH NATION spirit and decision, but favouritism and incompetencemarked his rule, and his real virtues were the mild onesof a scholarly saint. His life was innocent and his speechrestrained; Forsooth and forsooth and By St. Johnwere his most emphatic expressions. He watched anx-. Chapel of Kings College, by Henry VI, completed by Henry VII. iously the morals of those about him, and sometimes worea hair shirt under his royal robes. It is not wholly truethat mens evil works live after them and that the goodones perish. The vices of Henrys enemies, Edward IVand Kichard 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, Avith loving chose the Eton masters himself, and delighted in gen-tle sermonizings to the boys. The doom of the House of Lancaster ripened helped to destroy itsrlf. Henry V left two brothers,who by working together might, perhaps, have made A CENTURY OF CIVIL AND FOREIGN WAR 211 their line strong. That they failed to do so was not thefanlt of the elder, John, Duke of Bedford, who was aHenry Vls serious and earnest statesman, of
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