f corpse's must
have made, I think, and one quite worthy of the young lady's father.

He died, after Waterford and Dublin had been taken, and various successes
achieved; and Strongbow became King of Leinster. Now came King Henry's
opportunity. To restrain the growing power of Strongbow, he himself
repaired to Dublin, as Strongbow's Royal Master, and deprived him of his
kingdom, but confirmed him in the enjoyment of great possessions. The
King, then, holding state in Dublin, received the homage of nearly all
the Irish Kings and Chiefs, and so came home again with a great addition
to his reputation as Lord of Ireland, and with a new claim on the favour
of the Pope. And now, their reconciliation was completed--more easily
and mildly by the Pope, than the King might have expected, I think.

At this period of his reign, when his troubles seemed so few and his
prospects so bright, those domestic miseries began which gradually made
the King the most unhappy of men, reduced his great spirit, wore away his
health, and broke his heart.

He had four sons. HENRY, now aged eighteen--his secret crowning of whom
had given such offence to Thomas a Becket. RICHARD, aged sixteen;
GEOFFREY, fifteen; and JOHN, his favourite, a young boy whom the
courtiers named LACKLAND, because he had no inheritance, but to whom the
King meant to give the Lordship of Ireland. All these misguided boys, in
their turn, were unnatural sons to him, and unnatural brothers to each
other. Prince Henry, stimulated by the French King, and by his bad
mother, Queen Eleanor, began the undutiful history,

First, he demanded that his young wife, MARGARET, the French King's
daughter, should be crowned as well as he. His father, the King,
consented, and it was done. It was no sooner done, than he demanded to
have a part of his father's dominions, during his father's life. This
being refused, he made off from his father in the night, with his bad
heart full of bitterness, and took refuge at the French King's Court.
Within a day or two, his brothers Richard and Geoffrey followed. Their
mother tried to join them--escaping in man's clothes--but she was seized
by King Henry's men, and immured in prison, where she lay, deservedly,
for sixteen years. Every day, however, some grasping English noblemen,
to whom the King's protection of his people from their avarice and
oppression had given offence, deserted him and joined the Princes. Every
day he heard some fresh