A STORMY LIFE. CHAPTER I. THE RED ROSE. A CHANGE hath come over the King. He shows more concern about the Duke of Suffolk's murther than he hath yet evinced at the ill-usage of his friends. The spark of fire in his nature which the Queen hath long laboured to kindle is at last elicited. The spirit of his father awakes. Now that tidings have reached London that one Jack Cade, a mean fellow which calls himself Mortimer, hath raised the mob in Kent, - instigated, many surmise, by the Duke of York,—and is marching towards the city, for the first time. the King is roused to action, and takes the lead in his own council. With absolute and VOL. II. B |