[LIFE OF Edward the Black Prince]
BY LOUISE CREIGHTON
WITH MAP AND PLANS
RIVINGTONS WATERLOO PLACE, LONDON Oxford and Cambridge
MDCCCLXXVI
"In war, was never lion rag'd more fierce,
In peace, was never gentle lamb more mild,
Than was that young and princely gentleman;
... when he frown'd it was against the French,
And not against his friends; his noble hand
Did win what he did spend, and spent not that
Which his triumphant father's hand had won:
His hands were guilty of no kindred's blood,
But bloody with the enemies of his kin."
Shakespeare, Richard II. Act ii. Scene 2.