It was remarked that his spirits were never so high and his manners never so gracious and easy as amidst the tumult and carnage of a battle.

Even in his pastimes he liked the excitement of danger.

Cards, chess, and billiards gave him no pleasure.
The chase was his favourite recreation; and he loved it most when it was most hazardous.

His leaps were sometimes such that his boldest companions did not like to follow him.

He seems even to have thought the most hardy field sports of England effeminate, and to have pined in the Great Park of Windsor for the game which he had been used to drive to bay in the forests of Guelders, wolves, and wild boars, and huge stags with sixteen antlers.