104/191 The good knight was like to die of grief at the mishap that had befallen him, even though it was not his fault; but in war there is hap and mishap more than in all other things." [_Histoire du bon Chevalier sans Peur et sans Reproche,_ t.ii. pp. _Les Gestes et la Vie du Chevalier Bayard,_ by Champier, pp. 171-174.] The situation of the French army before Milan was now becoming more and more, not insecure only, but critical. |