He was therefore on his guard. For now, when Geraldine loved him,
his life belonged no longer to himself alone; she loved him; she had
a claim on him; his days were, therefore, hallowed in his own eyes.
So he had kept silence under the petty annoyances and vexations of
the king. He had taken it even without murmuring, and without
demanding satisfaction, when the king had suddenly recalled him from
the army that was fighting against France, and of which he was
commander-in-chief, and in his stead had sent Lord Hertford, Earl of
Sudley, to the army which was encamped before Boulogne and
Montreuil. He had quietly and without resentment returned to his
palace; and since he could no longer be a general and warrior, he
became again a scholar and poet. His palace was now again the resort
of the scholars and writers of England; and he was always ready,
with true princely munificence, to assist oppressed and despised
talent; to afford the persecuted scholar an asylum in his palace. He
it was who saved the learned Fox from starvation, and took him into
his house, where Horatius Junius and the poet Churchyard, afterward
so celebrated, had both found a home--the former as his physician
and the latter as his page. [Footnote: Nott's Life of the Earl of
Surrey]
Love, the arts, and the sciences, caused the wounds that the king
had given his ambition, to heal over; and he now felt no more
rancor; now he almost thanked the king. For to his recall only did
he owe his good fortune; and Henry, who had wished to injure him,
had given him his sweetest pleasure.
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