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Its History, Festivities And Carols

	CHAPTER III. H E wild course of Henry the Fifth, while Prince of Wales, and his brilliant but short career as king, are well known, and are immortalised by Shakespeare;— " Never was such a sudden scholar made : Never came reformation in a flood, With such a heady current, scouring faults ;" his historical plays have probably supplied many with their principal knowledge of the early annals of our country, from King Lear downwards; and we must not quarrel with the dramatic fate of Cordelia, although her real story was more prosperous, as we have, consequently, some of the most