A Child's History of England.122

To dispute [争夺] this triumph, back came King Edward again, next year, landing at Ravenspur, coming on to York, causing [让,使] all his men to cry 'Long live King Henry!' and swearing on the altar, without a blush, that he came to lay no claim to the crown. Now was the time for the Duke of Clarence, who ordered his men to assume [take on] the White Rose [约克党], and declare for his brother. The Marquis of Montague, though the Earl of Warwick's brother, [Earl of Warwick是兰开斯特.红玫瑰.亨利党] also declining to fight against King Edward, he went on successfully to London, where the Archbishop of York let him into the City, and where the people made great demonstrations in his favour [支持他的示威]. For this they had four reasons. Firstly, there were great numbers of the King's adherents [支持者] hiding in the City and ready to break out; secondly, the King [Edward] owed them a great deal of money, which they could never hope to get if he were unsuccessful; thirdly, there was a young prince to inherit the crown; and fourthly, the King was gay [轻松愉快的] and handsome, and more popular than a better man might have been with the City ladies. After a stay of only two days with these worthy [应受敬重的] supporters, the King marched out to Barnet Common, to give the Earl of Warwick battle. And now it was to be seen, for the last time, whether the King or the King-Maker was to carry the day [win/have success].

The Earl of Warwick was usually called the King-Maker.

潘岳妙有姿容，好神情。少时挟弹出洛阳道，妇人遇者，莫不连手共萦之。左太冲绝丑，亦复效岳游遨，于是群妪齐共乱唾之，委顿而返。南朝梁·刘孝标注引《语林》曰：“安仁至美，每行，老妪以果掷之，满车。张孟阳至丑，每行，小儿以瓦石投之，亦满车。”二说不同。

While the battle was yet pending, the fainthearted Duke of Clarence began to repent [懊悔], and sent over secret messages to his father-in-law, offering his services in mediation with the King. But, the Earl of Warwick disdainfully [蔑视地] rejected them, and replied that Clarence was false and perjured [false], and that he would settle the quarrel by the sword. The battle began at four o'clock in the morning and lasted until ten, and during the greater part of the time it was fought in a thick mist - absurdly supposed to be raised by a magician. The loss of life was very great, for the hatred was strong on both sides. The King-Maker was defeated, and the King triumphed. Both the Earl of Warwick and his brother were slain, and their bodies lay in St. Paul's, for some days, as a spectacle to the people.

Margaret's spirit was not broken even by this great blow. Within five days she was in arms again, and raised her standard [旗帜] in Bath, whence [from where] she set off with her army, to try and join Lord Pembroke, who had a force in Wales. But, the King, coming up with her outside the town of Tewkesbury, and ordering his brother, the Duke of Gloucester, who was a brave soldier, to attack her men, she sustained [undergo, suffer] an entire defeat, and was taken prisoner, together with her son, now only eighteen years of age. The conduct of the King to this poor youth was worthy of his cruel character. He ordered him to be led into his tent. 'And what,' said he, 'brought you to England?' 'I came to England,' replied the prisoner, with a spirit which a man of spirit might have admired in a captive, 'to recover my father's kingdom, which descended to him as his right, and from him descends to me, as mine.' The King, drawing off his iron gauntlet [铠甲的金属手套], struck him with it in the face; and the Duke of Clarence and some other lords, who were there, drew their noble swords, and killed him.

His mother survived him [比他长命], a prisoner, for five years; after her ransom by the King of France, she survived for six years more. Within three weeks of this murder, Henry died one of those convenient sudden deaths which were so common in the Tower; in plainer words, he was murdered by the King's order.

六级/考研单词: triumph, blush, princess, gay, handsome, worthy, march, pending, mediate, quarrel, sword, mist, absurd, magic, spectacle, sustain, conduct, tent, captive, descend, noble, gradual