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Our king knew well the nature of the King of England, who was very fond of his ease and his pleasures: when he had concluded these treaties with him, he ordered that the money should be found with the greatest expedition, and every one had to lend somewhat to help to supply it on the spot.

The king said that there was nothing in the world he would not do to thrust the King of England out of the realm, save only that he would never consent that the English should have a bit of territory there; and, rather than suffer that, he would put everything to jeopardy and risk." Commynes had good reason to say that the kingdom was in great peril.

The intentions of Charles the Rash tended to nothing short of bringing back the English into France, in order to share it with them.

He made no concealment of it.