Thou wilt find me ever ready to receive thee in the open field, thee and thy men-at-arms.

And what I say to thee, I say for the sake of all the Christians thou mayest purpose to bring.

I fear them not; I was born to fight them, and to conquer the world." Everywhere and at all times human pride, with its blind arrogance, is the same.

Bajazet saw no glimpse of that future when his empire would be decaying, and held together only by the interested protection of Christian powers.

After paying dearly for their errors and their disasters, Count John of Nevers and his comrades in captivity re-entered France in February, 1398, and their expedition to Hungary was but one of the last vain ventures of chivalry in the great struggle that commenced in the seventh century between Islamry and Christendom.
While this tragic incident was taking place in Eastern Europe, the court of the mad king was falling a victim to rivalries, intrigues, and scandals which, towards the close of this reign, were to be the curse and the shame of France.