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Rh He gives what he calls a prayer of the saintly monarch whilst in the Tower: " I should be wholly without gratitude, O sweetest Jesus, were I not to give thanks to Thee for my many misfortunes as well as for the good things I have received. Thou knowest what good fortune and what ill fortune Thou hast given me in the course of my life. I have accepted both the good and the bad most willingly from Thy hands, who causest the sun to shine on the good and the wicked and sendest the rain upon the just and unjust. The prosperity Thou hast given me I proclaim not by way of boasting, but in thanksgiving. Thou hast given me royal parents, of a noble and ancient race. This occasion might require me to name the numberless great deeds of my Father in France, but my prayer leads me to other thoughts and this only I say about myself to give the glory to God.

"I was crowned in the prosperous city of Paris, and I later married the chaste daughter of the King of Sicily, a most wise woman, and from her I had a son, Prince Edward. For many years the kingdom was governed in peace. For these things it is better to be grateful than to mourn. And now, though I