There, after two attempts to converse, broken by a terrible thunder-storm, Henry, held up on horseback by his servants, accepted Philip’s terms and submitted, surrendering all that he was asked to surrender. One thing he asked for, the list of the conspirators, to whom he was obliged to promise forgiveness. The list was given him; and with reluctance and muttered reproaches, perhaps curses also, he gave Richard the kiss of peace. He went back to Azai, still transacting some little business on the way, for the monks of Canterbury, who had quarrelled with their archbishop, forced themselves into his presence and provoked some sharp words of reproof even then. Then he opened the list of rebels, and the first name that he saw was John’s. And that broke his heart; he turned his face to the wall and said, “I have nothing left to care for; let all things go their way.” [Sidenote: Death of Henry II. ] From that blow he never rallied. He was carried on a litter to Chinon, chafing against the shame of defeat and the mortification of his love. Geoffrey sat by him fanning him in the sultry air and driving away the flies that teased him. To him Henry confided his last wishes. He told him he was to be Archbishop of York, and gave him his ring, with the seal of the panther, to give to the King of Castile; then he ordered them to take him up, on his bed, and lay him before the altar of the castle chapel; there he received the last sacraments and died, two days after the meeting at Colombieres. There is hardly in all English history a more striking catastrophe or a scene in itself more simply touching. So much suffering, so great a fall, from such grandeur to such humiliation, such bitter sorrow, the loss of everything worth having, power and peace and his children’s love may have stirred in him in that last moment the thought of forgiveness. But Richard saw him alive no more; and when at the funeral, at Fontevraud, he met the bier on which his father’s body lay, blood flowed forthwith from the nostrils of the dead king, as if his spirit were indignant at his coming. CHAPTER VI. RICHARD CŒUR DE LION. Character of the reign--Richard’s first visit to England--His character--The Crusade--Fall of Longchamp--Richard’s second visit--His struggle with Philip--His death.