lé : it Vilaines. What do you fay to this, brother?9 added the duke of Berry. c Our nephew is young, and if he follow young counfel he will be deceived, and the end will not be profperous, as you will fee. For the prefent, we muft diffemble this affront; but the time will come, when thofe who have advifed it {hall repent of it, as weH as the king. Let them go whither they pleafe, m God's name : we will return to our own home ; and, fo long as we are united, they cannot do us any injury, for we are the greatteft perfonages in trance. ' Such was the language of thefe two dukes. • The king of France left Villeneuve early in the morning, for Nîmes, where he arrived to dinner ; but his uncles and the lord de Coucy ftaid with the popç, at Avignon, four days longer,. when they all fèparated, and each went different ways. The day the king dined at Nîmes, he lay at Lunel, and the next day dined at Montpellier, which was but three fhort leagues diftant. He was joyfully received by the citizens, ladies and damfels, who were defirous to fee him, and offered him mag-nificent and rich prefents ; for Montpellier is a powerful and wealthy town, full of merchandife, and was much valued by the king, when he had cônfidered its importance. - The citizens told him, it bad been infinitely richer than he now found it, before the dukes of Anjou and Berry had plum dçred ft, as they had feverally done in their turn. The king compaffionated them much for the loffes they had ftiftained, and promifed that he would . ' have