...promised amendment; but the most specific charges which he brings against him are that ' he was in his youth a diligent follower of idle practices, much given to instruments of Henry V fired with the torches of Venus 12, 15). Another fifteenthiys : ' In his youth he had filti...

...The Dictionary of National Biography, are that ' he was in his youth ' (according to Thomas Elmham) ' a diligent follower of idle practices, much given to instruments of music, and fired with the torches of Venus herself '. It was also part of the tradition that ' as soon as he was...

...in speech. In dealing with others he made it a point of honour to be affable to all men. "He was in his youth a diligent follower of idle practices, much given to instruments of music, and fired with the torches of Venus herself," so Elmham says. Reading and music were his chief recreations,...

...chapter that begins with what appears to be a quotation from the historical record describes Hal thus: He was in the days of his youth a diligent follower...extravagances that attend the days of undisciplined youth. Worcester's translated that for me. It's from the Gesta Henrici Quinti... . 7 I throw in this bit of...