This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 edition. Excerpt: ... love with the old knight's daughter, Alice Lee. While an apparent refugee at Woodstock from the Worcester defeat, he even makes very free with the female servants in the host's house, which, from historical accounts, is likely true enough to his nature. This gay young man probably found Woodstock, even when a ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 edition. Excerpt: ... love with the old knight's daughter, Alice Lee. While an apparent refugee at Woodstock from the Worcester defeat, he even makes very free with the female servants in the host's house, which, from historical accounts, is likely true enough to his nature. This gay young man probably found Woodstock, even when a temporary refuge from peril, yet a dull place, and Sir Henry tries to amuse him in a way which might have suited Charles the First but was quite a failure with his frivolous successor. Scott, who always delights to describe historical persons in imaginary situations, while adhering closely to every sign of probability, writes: Sir Henry then offered to read him a play of Shakespeare, and for this purpose turned up King Richard II. But hardly had he commenced with "old John of Gaunt, time-honoured Lancaster," when the young gentleman was seized with such an uncontrollable fit of the cramp as could only be relieved by immediate exercise (chap. xxiii.). The worthy host, however, had strangely chosen one of the most serious, if not gloomy, among the "Plays." Had he chosen to read aloud about Falstaff, or Benedick and Beatrice, the bored young Prince might have listened either with pleasure, or at least with comparative patience.1 But previously Scott makes Alice Lee describe the character of Charles the First to his father and the disguised Prince in terms of the highest praise, yet which was evidently believed by the Cavalier party, and rather resembled the account given by Hume: 1 Chapter xxii. "If moral virtues and religious faith were to be selected as the qualities which merited a crown, no man could plead the possession of them in a higher or more indisputable degree, temperate, wise, and frugal, yet munificent in...
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