We have suffered too much; we must have revenge; down upon them, in the name of the devil, down upon them.

The king makes a sheep of himself and bargains for his wool and his skin, as if he had not wherewithal to defend himself.

'Sdeath! if we were in his place, we would rather risk the whole kingdom than let ourselves be treated in this fashion." But the king did not like to risk the kingdom; and he had more confidence in negotiation than in war.

Two of his principal advisers, the constable De St.Pol and the cardinal De la Balue, Bishop of Evreux, were of his opinion, and urged him to the top of his bent.

Of them he especially made use in his more or less secret relations with the Duke of Burgundy; and he charged them to sound him with respect to a personal interview between himself and the duke.