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Ye may come back at another tide, methinks ye tarry
here too long,
Your horse at your hand is ready, another day you
may worship win
And come to reign with royalty, and wear your
crown and be our king.
'Nay, give me my battle-axe in my hand, set the crown
of England on my head so high.
For by Him that made both sea and land, King of
England this day I will die.
One foot I will never flee whilst the breath is my
breast within.'
As he said so did it be-if he lost his life he died a
King."
'"Set the crown of England on my head",' said Carradine, musing. 'That was the crown that was found in a hawthorn bush afterwards.'
'Yes. Set aside for plunder probably.'
'I used to picture it one of those high plush things that King George got crowned in, but it seems it was just a gold circlet.'
'Yes. It could be worn outside the battle helmet.'
'Gosh,' said Carradine with sudden feeling, 'I sure would have hated to wear that crown if I had been Henry! I sure would have hated it!' He was silent for a little, and then he said: 'Do you know what the town of York wrote-wrote in their records, you know-about the battle of Bosworth?'
'No.'
'They wrote: "This day was our good King Richard piteously slain and murdered; to the great heaviness of this city."'
The chatter of the sparrows was loud in the quiet.
'Hardly the obituary of a hated usurper,' Grant said at last, very dry.
'No,' said Carradine, 'no. "To 'the great heaviness of this city",' he repeated slowly, rolling the phrase over in his mind. 'They cared so much about it that even with a new r茅gime in the offing and the future not to be guessed at they put down in black and white in the town record' their opinion that it was murder and their sorrow at it.'
'Perhaps they had just heard about the indignities perpetrated on the King's dead body and were feeling a little sick.'
'Yes. Yes. You don't l
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