He also customarily wore a long gown with a rolled hood like a townsman, and a full coat reaching below his knees, with shoes, boots and foot-gear wholly black, rejecting expressly all curious fashion of clothing. The same prince when in the end he lost both the realms, England and France, which he had ruled before, along with all his wealth and goods, endured it with no broken spirit but with a calm mind, making light of all temporal things, if he might but gain Christ and things eternal. to the confusion of avarice he was very bountiful with his gifts, as his former servants bore witness. With none did he deal craftily, nor even would say an untrue word to any, but framed his speech always to speak truth.Against the pest of avarice with which so many are infected and diseased, even princes of the earth, this king Henry of whom we speak was most wary and alert. I have therefore thought fit to treat of some matters to the praise of God and of the serene prince King Henry VI now deceased.He was a simple man, without any crook of craft or untruth, as is plain to all.
It is written that we are to praise no man before his death, but that in the end shall be the exposing of his works.
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