Edward the Black Prince

"I have tried to make this book as representatively English as I might; with less thought of robust and resounding patriotism than of that subdued and hallowed emotion which, for example, should possess any mans thoughts standing before the tomb of the Black Prince in Canterbury Cathedral: a sense of wonderful history written silently in books and buildings, all persuading that we are heirs of more spiritual wealth than, may be, we have surmised or hitherto begun to divine."

"Is the sable warrior fled? Thy son is gone. He rests among the dead."