His conquerors, both officers and privates, could not help, whilst they secured his person, showing their admiration for him.

When he sat down to table, after having had his wounds, which were slight, attended to, Bourbon approached him respectfully and presented him with a dinner-napkin; and the king took it without embarrassment and with frigid and curt politeness.

He next day granted him an interview, at which an accommodation took place with due formalities on both sides, but nothing more.

All the king's regard was for the Marquis of Pescara, who came to see him in a simple suit of black, in order, as it were, to share his distress.

"He was a perfect gentleman," said Francis I., "both in peace and in war." He heaped upon him marks of esteem and almost of confidence.