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English History Reading Books. [with] the Young Student's English History Reading Book [and] English History Home Lesson Books. [with] the
English History Reading Books the Young Student's English History Reading Book English History Home Lesson Books the - with - and Author:Charlotte Mary Yonge Title: English History Reading Books. [with] the Young Student's English History Reading Book [and] English History Home Lesson Books. [with] the Young Student's English History Reading Book General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1885 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustration... more »s and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: VII. THE SONS OF HENRY II. (continue). 1. There was no one whom Philip hated like Henry II., and the easiest way of hurting him was by helping his sons to rebel against him. Young Henry, who had been crowned, wanted to be king in earnest, and fought against his father to obtain Normandy. In the midst of the war, young Henry fell sick of a fever, and sent to beg his father to come and see and pardon him. 2. The old King feared it was a trick, in order to make him prisoner, and would not come, though he sent a ring as a token of pardon. His son was really sick unto death, and died, bitterly bewailing the undutifulness which had cut him off from his father's blessing. 3. His brothers did not take warning. Geoffrey chiefly lived with King Philip. Knights used to have games of war. A space was railed off, and called the lists. Galleries were set round from which the ladies could look on, and knights in full armour rode at one another, with their lances set up in rest over their horses' heads, to try to throw each other down ; and the one who succeeded best had a prize from the chief lady there. These games were called tournaments. The points of the lances were blunt, so that there might be no bad wounds; but mischances sometimes happened, and in a tournament at Paris, Geoffrey was thrown from his horse and killed by the fall. He left one daughter and a little son, who was named Arthur. 4. News came from the East that...« less