King Philip had a tender nose; a very whiff of offence might have drawn blood.

Prince John had a shrewd eye and an evil way of using it; he stroked women, but they seldom liked it, and never found good come of it.

The Duke of Burgundy ate and drank too much.

He resembled a sponge, when empty too rough a customer, when full too juicy.

It was on one of the days when he was very full that, tilting at the ring, he won, or said he won, forty pounds of Richard.