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gave himself six stabs with a knife, and cut his throat. 

 Nor did the surgeon perceive it till the morning, when he 

 found his bed all bloody, and the dead body by him. He 

 marvelled at this sight on his awaking, and feared they 

 would say he was the cause of the murder; but he was 

 soon relieved, seeing the reason, which was despair at the 

 loss of the good friendship of the King. 



So Guyard was buried. And those of Danvilliers, when 

 they saw the breach large enough for us to enter, and our sol- 

 diers ready to assault them, surrendered themselves to the 

 mercy of the King. Their leaders were taken prisoners, 

 and their soldiers were sent away without arms. 



The camp being dispersed, I returned to Paris with my 

 gentleman whose leg I had cut off; I dressed him, and God 

 healed him. I sent him to his house merry with a wooden 

 leg ; and he was content, saying he had got off cheap, not to 

 have been miserably burned to stop the blood, as you write 

 in your book, mon petit maistre. 



THE JOURNEY TO CHATEAU LE COMTE. 1552 



SOME time after, King Henry raised an army of thirty 

 thousand men, to go and lay waste the country about 

 Hesdin. The King of Navarre, who was then called M. 

 de Vendosme, was chief of the army, and the King's Lieu- 

 tenant. Being at St. Denis, in France, waiting while the 

 companies passed by, he sent to Paris for me to speak with 

 him. When I came he begged me (and his request was a 

 command) to follow him on this journey; and I, wishing 

 to make my excuses, saying my wife was sick in bed, he 

 made answer there were physicians in Paris to cure her, 

 and he, too, had left his wife, who was of as good a house 

 as mine, and he said he would use me well, and forthwith 

 ordered I should be attached to his household. Seeing 

 this great desire he had to take me with him, I dared not 

 refuse 'him. 



I went after him to Chateau le Comte, within three or 

 four leagues of Hesdin. The Emperor's soldiers were in 

 garrison there, with a number of peasants from the coun- 

 try road. M. de Vendosme called on them to surrender; 



