so? ton; and I was truly forry for the count his fa-ther, whom I found a magnificent, generous and courteous lord, and alfo for the country that was difcontented for want of an heir. I then took leave of the fquire, after having thanked him for the pleafure his narration had given me. I faw him frequently afterwards in the hôtel de Foix, when we had alwaj» fome converfation. I once asked him about fir Peter de Béarn, baf-tard-brother to the count, who feemed to me a knight of great valour, and if he were rich, or married. f Married indeed he is/ replied he, c but neither his wife nor children live with him/ * For what reafon?' faid 1. * I will tell you/ replied the fquire. f Sir Peter de Béarn has a cuftom, when afleep in the night-time, to rife, arm himfelf, draw his fword, and to begin fighting as if he were in actual combat. The chamberlains and valets who fleep in his chamber to watch him, on hear-ing him rife, go to him, and inform him what he is doing : of all which, he tells them, he is quite ignorant, and that they lie. Sometimes they leave neither arms nor fword in his cham-ber, when he makes fuch a noife and clatter as if all the devils in hell were there. They there-fore think it belt to replace the arms, and fome-times he forgets them, and remains quietly in his bed/ I again asked, if he had a large fortune with his wife. * Yes, in God's name, had he/ faid the fquire; * but the lady keeps pofleffion of it, and enjoys the profits, except a fourth part, which fir