Richard's Poor Character

In Hume: the Scottish campaign of 1385 provides an example of Richard's poor character.

While Richard leads an army into Scotland, the Scottish troops invade England and lay waste to Cumberland, Westmoreland, and Lancashire.

Richard's advisers urge him to lead his troops to the west in order to encounter the Scots as they returned to Scotland. But Richard is impatient to return to England, so that he can "enjoy his usual pleasures and amusements." This impatience "outweighed every consideration."

Hume concludes this segment by observing how the English "regretted the indolence and levity of their king."