The Last of the Barons, by the Author of 'Rienzi'. by Sir E. Bulwer Lytton

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: power is France. Make Louis thy friend and ally, and them givest peace to thy life and thy lineage?make Louis thy foe, and count oil plots, and stratagems, and treason?uneasy days and sleepless nights. Already thou hast lost one occasion to secure that wiliest and most restless of princes, in rejecting the hand of the Princess Bona. Happily, this loss can now be retrieved. But alliance with Burgundy is war with France?war more deadly because Louis is a mail who declares it not?a war carried on by intrigue and bribe, by spies and minions, tffl some disaffection ripens the hour when yomi- Edward of Lancaster shall land on thy coasts, with the Oriflamme and the Hed Rose, ? with French soldiers and English malcontents. Wouldst thou look to Burgundy for help? ? Burgundy will have enough to guard its own frontiers from the gripe of Louis the Sleepless. Edward, my king, my pupil in arms?Edward, my loved, my honoured liege, forgive iiichard cvile his bluntuess, and let not his faults stand in bar of his counsels. You are right, as you are ever?safeguard of England, and pillar of my slate, said the king frankly, and pressing the arm he still held. Go to France and settle all as thou wilt. Warwick bent low and kissed the hand of his sovereign. And, said he, with a slight, but a sad smile? when I am gone, my liege will not repent, wffl not misthink me, will not listen to my foes, nor suffer merchant and mayor to sigh him back to the mechanics of Flanders? Warwick, thou decmest ill of thy king's kingliness. Not of Ihy kingliness, but that same gracious quality of yielding to counsel which bows this proud nature to submission?often makes me fear for thy firmness, when thy will is won through thy heart. And now, good my liege'forgive me one sentence more. Heaven for...