staled not his majesty to consultations with the mayor of his city.

Henry V.gave the knighthood of the hath to the heroes of Agincourt, not to the vendors of cloth and spices." "Ah, my poor knights of the Bath!" said Edward, good-humouredly, "wilt thou never let that sore scar quietly over?
Ownest thou not that the men had their merits ?" "What the merits were, I weet not," answered the earl,--"unless, peradventure, their wives were comely and young." "Thou wrongest me, Warwick," said the king, carelessly; "Dame Cook was awry, Dame Philips a grandmother, Dame Jocelyn had lost her front teeth, and Dame Waer saw seven ways at once! But thou forgettest, man, the occasion of those honours,--the eve before Elizabeth was crowned,--and it was policy to make the city of London have a share in her honours.
As to the rest," pursued the king, earnestly and with dignity, "I and my House have owed much to London.

When the peers of England, save thee and thy friends, stood aloof from my cause, London was ever loyal and true.
Thou seest not, my poor Warwick, that these burgesses are growing up into power by the decline of the orders above them.

And if the sword is the monarch's appeal for his right, he must look to contented and honoured industry for his buckler in peace.

This is policy,--policy, Warwick; and Louis XI.