Richard's Character

1396:

According to Hume, Richard's "personal character brought him into contempt....Indolent, profuse [i.e. "spending or giving freely and in large amount, often to excess"], addicted to low pleasures; he spent his whole time in feasting and jollity, and dissipated, in idle show, or in bounties to favourites of no reputation, that revenue which the people expected to see him employ in enterprizes directed to public honour and advantage."