BOOK THE THIRD
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Serve him my Royal Master; in his cause
My youth adventur'd much, nor can my age
Find better close than in the clang of arms
To die for him whom I have liv'd to serve.[1]
Thou art for the Court; Son of the Chief I lov'd!35
Be wise by my experience. Look not thou
For happiness in that polluted scene.
Thou see'st me here Dunois, a banish'd man,
A not unwilling exile to appease
The proud and powerful Richemont,[2] who long time40
Most sternly jealous of the royal ear
"With
- ↑ Line 759 Tanneguy du Chatel had saved the life of Charles when Paris was seized by the Burgundians. Lisle Adam, a man noted for ferocity even in that age, was admitted at midnight into the city with eight hundred horse. The partizans of Burgundy were under arms to assist them, and a dreadful slaughter of the Armagnacs ensued. Du Chatel, then Governor of the Bastile, being unable to restrain the tumult, ran to the Louvre, and carried away the Dauphin in his shirt, in order to secure him in his fortress. Rapin.
- ↑ Line 765 Richemont caused De Giac to be strangled in his bed, and thrown into the Loire, to punish the negligence that had occasioned him to be defeated by an inferior force at Avranches. The Constable had laid siege to St. James de Beuvron, a place strongly garrisoned by the English. He had been promised a convoy of money, which De Giac, who had the management of the treasury, purposely detained to mortify the constable. Richemont openly accused the treasurer, and revenged himself thus violently. After this, he boldly declared that he would serve in the same manner any person whatsoever that should endeavour to engross the King's favor. The Camus of Beaulieu accepted De Giac's place, and was by the constable's means assassinated in the King's presence.
