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With this recommendation to the good will of a lion-hearted monarch, he hastened to King Richard, fell on his knees before him, and obtained the intercession of Queen Eleanor. 'I forgive him, said the King, 'and I hope I may forget the injury he has done me, as easily as I know he will forget my pardon.
An account of the history of this period may be found in either Gardiner , Green, Lingard, Walker, or Cheney. For the social side, consult Traill, I. and II. See also Rogers's Six Centuries of Work and Wages. Kingsley's Hereward the Wake deals with the times of William the Conqueror and Scott's Ivanhoe with those of Richard the Lion-Hearted.
I see a terrible long journey ahead fur a tired man." Henry smiled. They all knew that none would be more zealous on the march, none more lion-hearted in battle, than this same Solomon Hyde, nicknamed the shiftless one. "When do we start?" asked Jim Hart. "Not before the cold weather passes," replied Henry. "It wouldn't be worth while.
The men who signed the paper pledging their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor in support of the Declaration, and who made their fearless appeal to God and the world in behalf of the rights of mankind, were both lion-hearted and noble-minded.
Richard's reckless immoralities. A warning. Sudden illness. Recovery. The peasant's discovery of hidden treasures. Videmar denies the story. Richard shot by Bertrand's arrow. King Richard's reign. The character of the "lion-hearted." During all this time the people of England were patiently waiting for Richard's return, and wondering what had become of him.
For a moment the lion-hearted general had felt despondency at the crushing defeat, being sorely wounded and weakened by loss of blood; but as he was carried off the field, his litter came alongside one in which L'Estrange, a Huguenot gentleman, also sorely wounded, was being borne.
Goldsmith in his History. As for the Lion-hearted, we all very well know that the shaft of Bertrand de Gourdon put an end to the royal hero and that from that 29th of March he never robbed nor murdered any more. And we have legends in recondite books of the manner of the King's death.
To his right, he could see the brilliant red-and-gold banner of the lion-hearted Richard of England gules, in pale three lions passant guardant or. Behind the standard-bearer, his great war horse moving with a steady, measured pace, his coronet of gold on his steel helm gleaming in the glaring desert sun, the lions of England on his firm-held shield, was the King himself.
That is to say, it was so arranged that the fogy-witted lived, while the lion-hearted died. The organization of the vast numbers enrolled was excellent whenever experts were given a free hand. But this free hand was rare. One vital point only needs special notice here: the wastefulness of raising new regiments when the old ones were withering away for want of reinforcements.
Or when, as it oft would happen, our lion-hearted monarch, Richard, in order to get a loan or a benevolence from the Jews, would roast a few of the Hebrew capitalists, or extract some of the principal rabbis' teeth, Rowena would exult and say, "Serve them right, the misbelieving wretches!
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