So thick the branches and the leave's green
Beshaded all the alleys that there were.
And midst of every harbour might be seen
The sharpe, green, sweet juniper,
Growing so fair with branches here and there,
That as it seemed to a lyf without
The boughs did spread the arbour all about."
And he thus describes the first appearance of the lovely Jane, and the
effect produced upon him by her charms:
"And therewith cast I down mine eye again,
Where as I saw walking under the tower,
Full secretly, new comyn her to plain,
The fairest and the freshest younge flower
That e'er I saw, methought, before that hour;
For which sudden abate, anon did start
The blood of all my body to my heart."
Henry the Fifth occasionally kept his court at Windsor, and in 1416
entertained with great magnificence the Emperor Sigismund, who
brought with him an invaluable relic--the heart of Saint George--which
he bestowed upon the chapter. The emperor was at the same time
invested with the Order.
In 1421 the unfortunate Henry the Sixth was born within the castle, and
in 1484 he was interred within it.
III. Comprising the Fourth Epoch in the
History of the Castle--And showing how Saint George's Chapel was
rebuilt by King Edward the Fourth.
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