_Henry_ (_Poor_), prince of Hoheneck, in Bavaria. Being struck with leprosy, he quitted his lordly castle, gave largely to the poor, and retired to live with a small cottage farmer named Gottlieb [_Got.leeb_], one of his vassals. He was told that he would never be cured till a virgin, chaste and spotless, offered to die on his behalf. Elsie, the farmer’s daughter, offered herself, and after great resistance, the prince accompanied her to Salerno to complete the sacrifice. When he arrived at the city, either the exercise, the excitement, or the charm of some relic, no matter what, had effected an entire cure, and when he took Elsie into the cathedral, the only sacrifice she had to make was that of her maiden name for Lady Alicia, wife of Prince Henry of Hoheneck.—Hartmann von der Aue (minnesinger), _Poor Henry_ (twelfth century). ⁂ This tale is the subject of Longfellow’s _Golden Legend_ (1851). _Henry_ (_Patrick_), Virginian orator, who, in the House of Burgesses, first raised the cry of “Liberty or Death” in the struggle of the American Colonies for Independence. Patrick Henry’s first legal triumph was in November, 1763, in the since famous _Parson’s Cause_. “In the language of those who heard him on this occasion, ‘he made their blood run cold, and their hair to rise on end ...’” “The jury seem to have been so completely bewildered, that, thoughtless even of the admitted right of the plaintiff, they had scarcely left the bar when they returned with a verdict of _one penny_ damages.”—William Wirt, _Life of Patrick Henry_ (1818). _Henry_ (_Prince_), Bernardine du Born, arraigned for treason, replies to King Henry’s questions, “Hath reason quite forsook thy breast?” with “My reason failed, my gracious liege, The year Prince Henry died.” The king, smitten by memories of his son, whose chosen intimate Bernardine was, forgives the offender:— “For the dear sake of the dead Go forth—unscathed and free.” Lydia Huntley Sigourney, _Poems_ (1836). =Henry II.=, king of England, introduced by Sir W. Scott, both in _The Betrothed_ and in _The Talisman_ (1825). =Henry V.=, Shakespeare’s drama, founded on _The Famous Victories of Henry V.: containing the Honorable Battle of Agincourt. As it is plaide by the Queenes Magesties players_, 1598. Shakespeare’s play appeared in print in 1600 (quarto). =Henry VI.=, Shakespeare’s dramas of this reign are founded on _The First Part of the Contention betwixt the two Famous Houses of Yorke and Lancaster, with the Death of the Good Duke Humphrey, etc. As it was sundry times acted by the Right Honorable the Earle of Pembroke his Servants_, 1600. Another. _The True Tragedie of Richard Duke of Yorke, and the Death of Good Henri VI., etc. As it was sundry times acted ..._ (as above).