The Caged Lion

By Yonge, Charlotte Mary

Book Id: WPLBN0000675446
Format Type: PDF eBook:
File Size: 0.8 MB
Reproduction Date: 2005

Title:	The Caged Lion
Author:	Yonge, Charlotte Mary
Volume:
Language:	English
Subject:	Fiction, Literature, Literature & drama
Collections:	Classic Literature Collection, Penn State University's Electronic Classics Series Collection
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Publisher:	Penn State University's Electronic Classics


Citation APA MLA Chicago Mary Yonge, B. C. (n.d.). The Caged Lion. Retrieved from http://gutenberg.us/

Excerpt
Preface: When the venture has been made of dealing with historical events and characters, it always seems fair towards the reader to avow what liberties have been taken, and how much of the sketch is founded on history. In the present case, it is scarcely necessary to do more than refer to the almost unique relations that subsisted between Henry V. and his prisoner, James I. of Scotland; who lived with him throughout his reign on the terms of friend rather than of captive, and was absolutely sheltered by this imprisonment throughout his nonage and early youth from the frightful violence and presumption of the nobles of his kingdom.