89. _His consort_. "Margaret of Anjou, a woman of heroic spirit, who
struggled hard to save her husband and her crown" (Gray).
_His father_. "Henry the Fifth" (Gray).
[Illustration: HENRY V.]
90. _The meek usurper_. "Henry the Sixth, very near being canonized.
The line of Lancaster had no right of inheritance to the crown"
(Gray). See on _Eton Coll._ 4. The MS. has "hallow'd head."
91. _The rose of snow_, etc. "The white and red roses, devices of
York and Lancaster" (Gray).
Cf. Shakes. 1 _Hen. VI._ ii. 4:
"No, Plantagenet,
'Tis not for shame, but anger, that thy cheeks
Blush for pure shame, to counterfeit our roses."
93. _The bristled boar_. "The silver boar was the badge of Richard
the Third; whence he was usually known in his own time by the name of
_the Boar_" (Gray). Scott (notes to _Lay of Last Minstrel_) says:
"The crest or bearing of a warrior was often used as a _nom de
guerre_. Thus Richard III. acquired his well-known epithet, 'the Boar
of York.'" Cf. Shakes. _Rich. III._ iv. 5: "this most bloody boar;"
v. 2: "The wretched, bloody, and usurping boar," etc.