“I have not seen a dapper Jack so brisk;
He wears a short Italian hooded cloak
Larded with pearl, and in his Tuscan cap
A jewel of more value than the crown.”
And of Edward, Mortimer is made to say:—
“When wert thou in the field with banner spread?
But once; and then thy soldiers march’d like players,
With garish robes, not armour; and thyself,
Bedaub’d with gold, rode laughing at the rest,
Nodding and shaking of thy spangled crest,