LONDON INSECTS 95 



' Who, busied in his majesties, surveys 

 The singing masons building roofs of gold.' 



The arguments drawn from them for ' the divine 

 right of kings ' might have fallen more consistently 

 from the lips of his namesake, Henry the Fifth of 

 France, who chose to live and die in exile at Frohsdorf 

 'the shore the tide was to reach at the appointed 

 time,' which never came rather than give up his white 

 flag and be a king by compromise. 



