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Black Prince

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Black Prince

Nickname of Edward, Prince of Wales, eldest son of Edward III of England.


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By this time Edward III had died, and Richard, the young son of the Black Prince, had come to the throne.
On such an occasion the author chanced to call to memory a rhyme recording three names of the manors forfeited by the ancestor of the celebrated Hampden, for striking the Black Prince a blow with his racket, when they quarrelled at tennis;---
He was compared by obsequious flatterers to the Black Prince, to Alcibiades, to the young Caesar.
 
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