converfing all the way as they approached Amiens, At the entrance of the city, the honours paid thf Englifh were increafed ; for the duke of Lancafter rode between the dukes of Berry and Burgundy, and when their liorfes moved it was but a foot's pace. Their horfes heads were in a line, which they took care to keep ; and thus thefe three pafled the gates, riding. vçry flowly and paying each other mutual honours, to the palace of the bifhop, where the king and the duke of Touraine were. Having difmounted, they afcended the Heps; and the dukes of Berry and Burgundy, taking the Englifh dukes by their hands, led them towards the king of France, the other lords fol-lowing, When in the prefence of the king, the three dukes; who fupported the uncles of the king of England, and the other French lords, caft them-feves on their knees ; but the two Englifh dukes remained as they were, inclining gently their heads |n honour of the king. The king inftantly ad-vanced tô them, took their hands, and bade Mf uncles and the other lords rife, and then entered into a friendly converfation with them, as did the barons of France with thofe of England. After this firft , interview, the lords of England tpok their leave of the king, his brother and uncles, and were at* tended as far as the fteps of the palace, when they mounted their horfes, and were efcorted to their hôtels by the conftable of France, the lord de Çoucy, the count de St. Pol, fir John de Vienne, •pfid the other lords of JYance, who there took leave, 347