In England from Wicliffe to Henry VIII - James Aitken Wylie

person;
How you awake the sleeping sword of war:
We charge you, in the name of God, take heed;
For never two such kingdoms did contend
Without much fall of blood; whose guiltless
drops
Are every one a woe, a sore complaint,
'Gainst him whose wrongs give edge unto the
swords
That make such waste in brief mortality."
The project met with the approval of the king.
To place the fair realm of France under his
sceptre; to unite it with England and Scotland–for
the king's uncle, the Duke of Exeter, suggested that
he who would conquer Scotland must begin with
France–in one monarchy; to transfer, in due time,
the seat of government to Paris, and make his
throne the first in Christendom, was an enterprise
grand enough to fire the spirit of a monarch less
ambitious and valorous than Henry V. Instantly the
king set about making preparations on a vast scale.
Soldiers were levied from all parts of England;
ships were hired from Holland and Flanders for the
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