There the Count of Charolais was awaiting him.

"Will you insure me, brother ?" said the king, as he stepped ashore.

"Yes, my lord, as a brother," said the count.

The king embraced him and went on; "I quite see, brother, that you are a gentleman and of the house of France." "How so, my lord ?" "When I sent my ambassadors lately [in 1464] to Lille on an errand to my uncle, your father and yourself, and when my chancellor, that fool of a Morvilliers, made you such a fine speech, you sent me word by the Archbishop of Narbonne that I should repent me of the words spoken to you by that Morvilliers, and that before a year was over.

Piques-Dieu, you've kept your promise, and before the end of the year has come.