This chapter's epigraph comes from a famous line from Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice , in which the king says, "I'm not a king, I'm a king's son" . It's a reference to the fact that King Henry IV, the king of England, was the son of a famous English nobleman, Henry V, who was also the father of many famous Englishmen, including Henry VI, Henry VII, and Henry VIII . The king of France, Henry VI's father, was a famous nobleman who ruled England from the 16th century until the end of the 17th century. Henry V was a powerful man, but he was also a tyrant. He was a tyrant because he wanted to rule England in the way that his father had ruled it. Henry VI had many children, but they were all born out of wedlock, and he wanted them all to be his own. He wanted them to be the heirs to the throne, not the children of the king. Henry IV's children were not his own, and they were not the heirs of his father. They were his servants. They wanted to keep the throne for themselves, not for Henry V. They didn't want to lose their power, so they wanted to make sure that Henry V's power stayed with them. This is why they tried to make