Henry was capable of ruthlessness, as his treatment of the mad woman who railed at him about Eleanor Cobham demonstrated, but he was not consistent. ‘Justice without mercy is cruelty,’ as a contemporary proverb went, but ‘mercy without justice, folly.’

— Lauren Johnson The Shadow King: The Life and Death of Henry VI (2019)

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