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In January Robert of Comines was made earl, and with rash confidence, against the advice of the bishop, he took possession of Durham with five hundred men or more. He expected, no doubt, to be very soon behind the walls of a new castle, but he was allowed no time. The very night of his arrival the enemy gathered and massacred him and all his men but two.
"Alas! good Sir Philip! you much wrong me in saying so." "But without whom," continued De Comines, not heeding the interruption, "as your Majesty will not now likely find it convenient to supply them, what chance will the burghers have of making good their town, in whose walls the large breaches made by Charles after the battle of St.
"My gracious lord," said De Comines, "as we were about to return hither from the forest, we met the Count of Crevecoeur " "How!" said the Duke, "already returned from Brabant? but he found all well there, doubtless?" "The Count himself will presently give your Grace an account of his news," said D'Hymbercourt, "which we have heard but imperfectly." "Body of me, where is the Count?" said the Duke.
Nor was the courtly vice of the libertine the only drawback to the virtuous character assigned to Hastings by Comines.
Sir Philip, would you make a fratricide of me? You remember well my brother Charles he was no sooner Duke of Guyenne, than he died. "We will diminish your Majesty's concern on that score, by giving you a companion in that solitary exaltation," said Philip de Comines.
Sismondi, vol. vi. p. 285. Her husband was a cadet of the House of Bourbon. Both Philip de Comines and Guicciardini have described the appearance and the character of the prince who was destined to play a part so prominent, so pregnant of results, and yet so trivial in the affairs of Europe.
In 1764 the Champs Élysées ended at Chaillot, a little to the W. of the Rond Point, an old feudal property which Louis XI. gave to Philippe de Comines in 1450, and which in 1651 sheltered the unhappy widow of Charles I. Here Catherine de' Medici built a château, but château and nunnery of the Filles de Sainte Marie, founded by the English queen, disappeared in 1790.
"Ah, but if it like your Majesty," replied De Comines, "Reason at Paris or Plessis was used to speak in so low and soft a tone of voice, that she could not always gain an audience of your Majesty at Peronne she borrows the speaking trumpet of Necessity, and her voice becomes lordly and imperative."
The only difference between them was that Ferdinand dissembled, while Alfonso, whose bravery at Otranto against the Turks had surrounded him with military glory, abandoned himself with cynicism to his passions. Sketching characters of both in the same paragraph, de Comines writes: 'Never was man more cruel than Alfonso, nor more vicious, nor more wicked, nor more poisonous, nor more gluttonous.
The old castle, however, is more interesting from its connection with the history of Charles the Bold, who retired to La Rivière after the battle of Morat, and spent here those sad solitary weeks of which Philip de Comines tells with so many moral reflections; weeks of bodily and mental distress, which left him a mere wreck, and led to his wild want of generalship and his miserable death at Nancy.
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