legacy from his father that enabled him to succeed. Henry IV had been a good king who worried about the soundness of the legacy he would leave his son. In one scene the old king wandered his palace at Westminster late at night, thinking of his subjects slumbering in their beds while he worried about the security of the realm. “Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown,” Henry soliloquized.2 Second Samuel ends with several chapters detailing the legacy King David was leaving his son Solomon. Some of