[1] His vices were these, as they are remembred. In time of aduerse fortune no man could shew himselfe more courteous, gentle, méeke,The vices of K. Henrie. and promising more largelie than he would. But when fortune once be|gan to smile, no man was more sharpe, hard to deale with, nor more redie to breake his promise and faith. He was also partlie noted of couetousnesse: for al|though he was liberall towards souldiers and stran|gers, yet was he streict inough towards his owne people, and namelie towards his sonnes, which cau|sed them to estrange themselues and their good wils from him. He was not so zealous toward the execu|tion of right and equitie as to the furtherance of his owne priuat commoditie.