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summation, yet it was enough to make void a con 

 tract. For as for the pretended consummation, they 

 made sport with it and said, &quot; That was an argu- 

 &quot; ment that Maximilian was a widower, and a cold 

 &quot; wooer, that could content himself to be a bride- 

 &quot; groom by deputy, and would not make a little 

 &quot; journey to put all out of question.&quot; So that the 

 young lady, wrought upon by these reasons, finely 

 instilled by such as the French king, who spared for 

 no rewards or promises, had made on his side ; and 

 allured likewise by the present glory and greatness 

 of King Charles, being also a young king and a 

 bachelor, and loth to make her country the seat of a 

 long and miserable war, secretly yielded to accept of 

 King Charles. But during this secret treaty with 

 the lady, the better to save it from blasts of opposi 

 tion and interruption, King Charles resorting to his 

 wonted arts, and thinking to carry the marriage as 

 he had carried the wars, by entertaining the King of 

 England in vain belief, sent a solemn ambassage by 

 Francis Lord of Luxemburg, Charles Marignian, and 

 Robert Gagvien, general of the order of the &quot; Bons 

 &quot; Hommes&quot; of the Trinity, to treat a peace and league 

 with the king, accoupling it with an article in the 

 nature of a request, that the French king might 

 with the king s good will, according unto his right 

 of seigniory and tutelage, dispose of the marriage of 

 the young Duchess of Britain as he should think 

 good ; offering by a judicial proceeding to make void 

 the marriage of Maximilian by proxy. Also all this 

 while, the better to amuse the world, he did continue 



