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CHAPTER V WITH KINGS AND QUEENS IN EDWARD'S SHRINE
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As you stand in the Confessor's shrine1, you will see all around you the tombs of kings and queens, and in the next chapters I am going to tell you something of those who were thought worthy2 to lie in a place of such high honour.
Henry III. was not at first buried in this chapel3, on which he had lavished4 so much thought and wealth. He died in the November of 1272, and was carried to Westminster, the Knights5 Templars, who had given some precious gifts to the Abbey, undertaking7 to provide the coffin8 and to pay all the expenses of the funeral, that it might be on a scale befitting one who had been so princely in his dealings with the Church and all matters concerning religion. There is something pathetic in the ending of Henry's life, for though he had reigned10 nearly sixty years, he had not won the love or trust of his people, and it has been truly said that "in his time England did nothing great except against him." The old king was alone when the end came, for his son Edward was away on a Crusade, and his brother, Richard, had died the year before, broken-hearted at the murder of his son Henry by a son of Simon de Montfort. But the Templars spared nothing that could make the funeral costly11, so that, as the solemn procession passed along, men declared that "the king shone more magnificent dead than he had appeared when living."
He was laid before the altar, in the very place from which the coffin of Edward the Confessor had been removed, for it was considered that special virtues12 still
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壁龛( niche的名词复数 ); 合适的位置[工作等]; (产品的)商机; 生态位(一个生物所占据的生境的最小单位) | |
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virgin
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gilt
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preservation
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