He lacks nothing but some territory which he may call his own; and this being so fair an opportunity to establish himself by marriage, I think that, Pasques dieu! he will find means to win and wed, without more than a hint on our part.

The Duke of Burgundy will then have such a thorn in his side as no lancet of our time will easily cut out from his flesh.

The Boar of Ardennes, whom he has already outlawed, strengthened by the possession of that fair lady's lands, castles, and seigniory, with the discontented Liegeois to boot, who, by may faith, will not be in that case unwilling to choose him for their captain and leader--let Charles then think of wars with France when he will, or rather let him bless his stars if she war not with him .-- How dost thou like the scheme, Oliver, ha ?" "Rarely," said Oliver, "save and except the doom which confers that lady on the Wild Boar of Ardennes .-- By my halidome, saving in a little outward show of gallantry, Tristan, the Provost Marshal, were the more proper bridegroom of the two." "Anon thou didst propose Master Oliver the barber," said Louis; "but friend Oliver and gossip Tristan, though excellent men in the way of counsel and execution, are not the stuff that men make counts of .-- Know you not that the burghers of Flanders value birth in other men precisely because they have it not themselves ?--A plebeian mob ever desire an aristocratic leader.

Yonder Ked, or Cade, or--how called they him ?--in England, was fain to lure his rascal rout after him by pretending to the blood of the Mortimers [Jack Cade was the leader of Cade's Rebellion.
Calling himself Mortimer, and claiming to be a cousin of Richard, Duke of York, in 1450, at the head of twenty thousand men, he took formal possession of London.

His alleged object was to procure representation for the people, and so reduce excessive taxation.].