He soon recovered them; but remained so weak that he could not raise his hand to his mouth, and, under the conviction that he was a dead man, he sent for his son-in-law, Peter of Bourbon, Sire de Beaujeu; and "Go," said he, "to Amboise, to the king, my son; I have intrusted him as well as the government of the kingdom to your charge and my daughter's care.

You know all I have enjoined upon him; watch and see that it be observed.

Let him show favor and confidence towards those who have done me good service and whom I have named to him.

You know, too, of whom he should beware, and who must not be suffered to come near him." He sent for the chancellor from Paris, and bade him go and take the seals to the king.

"Go to the king," he said to the captains of his guards, to his archers, to his huntsmen, to all his household.