HISTORY OF KING HENRY VII. 417 



was it winning or pleasing, but as the face of one 

 well disposed. But it was to the disadvantage of 

 the painter, for it was best when he spake. 



His worth may bear a tale or two, that may put 

 upon him somewhat that may seem divine. When 

 the Lady Margaret his mother had divers great 

 suitors for marriage, she dreamed one night, that 

 one in the likeness of a bishop in pontifical habit did 

 tender her Edmund, Earl of Richmond, the king s 

 father, for her husband, neither had she ever any 

 child but the king, though she had three husbands. 

 One day when King Henry the Sixth, whose inno- 

 cency gave him holiness, was washing his hands at 

 a great feast, and cast his eye upon King Henry, 

 then a young youth, he said ; &quot; This is the lad that 

 shall possess quietly that, that we now strive for.&quot; 

 But that, that was truly divine in him, was that he 

 had the fortune of a true Christian, as well as of a 

 great king in living exercised, and dying repentant : 

 so as he had an happy warfare in both conflicts, both 

 of sin and the cross. 



He was born at Pembroke castle, and lieth buried 

 at Westminster, in one of the stateliest and daintiest 

 monuments of Europe, both for the chapel and for 

 the sepulchre. So that he dwelleth more richly 

 dead, in the monument of his tomb, than he did alive 

 in Richmond, or any of his palaces. I could wish he 

 did the like in this monument of his fame. 



