[4] Belloc, "Paris," p. 248.
[5] Guizot, III, p. 22.
[6] Guizot, III, p. 27.
[7] Guizot, III, p. 28.
[8] Guizot, III, p. 29.
CHAPTER II THE LION AND THE LILIES
"Fair stood the wind for France."—Michael Drayton.
I yield to no one in my love and admiration for Henry V. in his nobler aspects, but I am not writing his story now. He came to France, not as the debonair and joyous prince of our affections, but as a conqueror; came, he told the unhappy French, as the instrument of God, to punish them for their sins. The phrase may have sounded less mocking then than it does to-day. France knew all about the sins; she had suffered under them, almost to death; it seemed hard that she must bear the punishment too.