softsword

Updated: May 3, 2025

The King's plan was a masterpiece of ingenuity; and the fact that the elaborate preparations needed for its execution were made so rapidly and so secretly as to escape detection by an enemy so close at hand goes far to show how mistaken are the charges of sloth and incapacity which, even in his own day, men brought against "John Softsword."

- The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 06 : (From Barbarossa to Dante)