History of Protestantism in the Netherlands - James Aitken Wylie

mounted on thin legs. Nature had not fitted him to
shine in either the sports of the tournament or the
conflicts of the battle-field; and both he shunned,
he had the ample brow, the blue eyes, and the
aquiline nose of his father; but these agreeable
features were forgotten in the ugliness of the under
part of his face. His lower jaw protruded. It was a
Burgundian deformity, but in Philip's case it had
received a larger than the usual family
development. To this disagreeable feature was
added another repulsive one, also a family
peculiarity, a heavy hanging under-lip, which
enlarged the apparent size of his mouth, and
strengthened the impression, which the unpleasant
protrusion of the jaw made on the spectator, of
animal voracity and savageness.
The puny, meagre, sickly-looking man who
stood beside the warlike and once robust form of
Charles, was not more unlike his father in body
than he was unlike him in mind. Not one of his
father's great qualities did he possess. He lacked
his statesmanship; he had no knowledge of men, he
could not enter into their feelings, nor
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