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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson: period of Charles's life. The English reader will remember
the name of Orleans in the play of HENRY V.; and it is at
least odd that we can trace a resemblance between the puppet
and the original. The interjection, "I have heard a sonnet
begin so to one's mistress" (Act iii. scene 7), may very well
indicate one who was already an expert in that sort of
trifle; and the game of proverbs he plays with the Constable
in the same scene, would be quite in character for a man who
spent many years of his life capping verses with his
courtiers. Certainly, Charles was in the great battle with
five hundred lances (say, three thousand men), and there he
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