No subject could be imagined better adapted to the gloomy and sarcastic genius of that painter.] At last, the Duke of Burgundy summoned the two before his council, and proposed that Adolphus should allow his father 6000 florins annually, with the title of Duke till his death.

"He told us," said Comines, "that he would sooner throw the old man head-foremost down a well and jump in himself afterwards.

His father had been Duke forty-four years, and it was time for him to retire." Adolphus being thus intractable, had been kept in prison till after the death of Charles the Bold.

To the memorable insurrection of Ghent, in the time of the Lady Mary, he owed his liberty.
The insurgent citizens took him from prison, and caused him to lead them in their foray against Tournay.

Beneath the walls of that city he was slain, and buried under its cathedral.