Could any touchiness exceed that of Robert Duke of Normandy?
According to Holinshed, the king, in trying on a new cloak,
with a hood, and finding it too tight for him, directed that
the garment should be taken to his brother (the duke), who was
a smaller man. A slight rent, however, had been made in the
garment, and the duke perceiving it, and hearing that the cloak
had been tried on by the king, indignantly exclaimed, “Now I
perceive I have lived too long, since my brother clothes me like
an almsman in his cast-rent garments,” and refusing all food,
starved himself to death.--London _Evening Standard_.
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