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bed to sleep, heard they were resolved to attack the town 

 next day. So he told the secret to a certain captain, say- 

 ing that they would make the attack next day for certain, 

 and he had heard it from the King, and prayed the said 

 captain to speak of it to no man, which he promised; but 

 his promise did not hold, and forthwith he disclosed it to 

 a captain, and this captain to a captain, and the captains to 

 some of the soldiers, saying always, "Say nothing." And it 

 was just so much hid, that next day early in the morning 

 there was seen the greater part of the soldiers with their 

 boots and breeches cut loose at the knee for the better 

 mounting of the breach. The King was told of this rumour 

 that ran through the camp, that the attack was to be made; 

 whereat he was astonished, seeing there were but three in 

 that advice, who had promised each other to tell it to no 

 man. The King sent for M. de ,Guise, to know if he had 

 spoken of this attack; he swore and affirmed to him he had 

 not told it to anybody ; and M. the Constable said the same, 

 and told the King they must know for certain who had de- 

 clared this secret counsel, seeing they were but three. In- 

 quiry was made from captain to captain. In the end they 

 found the truth ; for one said, " It was such an one told me," 

 and another said the same, till it came to the first of all, 

 who declared he had heard it from the groom of the King's 

 chamber, called Guyard, a native of Blois, son of a barber 

 of the late King Francis. The King sent for him into his 

 tent, in the presence of MM. de Guise and the Constable, 

 to hear from him whence he had his knowledge, and who 

 had told him the attack was to be made; and said if he did 

 not speak the truth he would have him hanged. Then he 

 declared he lay down under the King's bed thinking to sleep, 

 and so having heard the plan he revealed it to a captain 

 who was a friend of his, to the end he might pre'pare himself 

 with his soldiers to be the first at the attack. Then the King 

 knew the truth, and told him he should never serve him 

 again, and that he deserved to be hanged, and forbade him 

 ever to come again to the Court. 



The groom of the chamber went away with this to 

 swallow, and slept that night with a surgeon-in-ordinary of 

 the King, Master Louis of Saint Andre; and in the night he 



