made" in various things.

The young king's


"addiction was to courses vain,
His companies unletter'd, rude, and shallow,"


precisely like Shakespeare's courses and companions at Stratford


"Had never noted in him any study."


Stratford tradition, a century after Shakespeare left the town, did
not remember "any study" in him; none had been "noted," nor could
have been remembered. To return to Henry, he shines in divinity,
knowledge of "commonwealth affairs,"


"You would say, it hath been all in all his study."


He is as intimate with the art of war; to him "Gordian knots of
policy" are "familiar as his garter." He MUST have


"The art and practic part of life,"