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by the enemy; and seeing we were always in alarms on 

 the way, I made my man get down, and made him the 

 master; for I got on his horse, which carried my valise, 

 and could go well if we had to make our escape, and I took 

 his cloak and hat and gave him my mount, which was a 

 good little mare; he being in front, you would have taken 

 him for the master and me for the servant. The garrison 

 inside Dourlan, when they saw us, thought we were the 

 enemy, and fired their cannon at us. Captain Gouast, my 

 conductor, made signs to them with his hat that we were 

 not the enemy; at last they ceased firing, and we entered 

 Dourlan, to our great relief. 



Five or six days before this, a sortie had been made 

 from Dourlan; wherein many captains and brave soldiers 

 had been killed or wounded: and among the wounded was 

 Captain Saint Aubin, vaillant comme I' espce, a great friend 

 of M. de Guise : for whose sake chiefly the King had sent 

 me there. Who, being attacked with a quartan fever, yet 

 left his bed to command the greater part of his company. 

 A Spaniard, seeing him in command, perceived he was a 

 captain, and shot him through the neck with an arquebus. 

 Captain Saint Aubin thought himself killed: and by this 

 fright I protest to God he lost his quartan fever, and was 

 forever free of it. I dressed him, with Antoine Portail, 

 surgeon-in-ordinary of the King; and many other soldiers. 

 Some died, others got off with the loss of an arm or a 

 leg or an eye, and said they had got off cheap, to be alive 

 at all. Then, the enemy having broken up their camp, I 

 returned to Paris. 



I say nothing here of man petit maistrc, who was more 

 comfortable in his house than I at the wars. 



THE JOURNEY TO SOURCES. 1563 



THE King with his camp was but a short time at Bourges, 

 till those within the walls should surrender; and they came 

 out with their goods saved. I know nothing worth re- 

 membering, but that a boy of the King's kitchen, having 

 come near the walls of the town before the agreement 

 had been signed, cried with a loud voice, " Huguenot, 



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