mighty vexed at there being so little confidence in one another.  He got up one morning very early, which is not his habit, took two gentlemen and a page, the first three he could find, mounted his horse, and went to visit the King of England at the castle of Guines.  When he came on to the castle-bridge, all the English were mighty astonished.  As he rode amongst them, the king gayly called upon them to surrender to him, and asked them the way to the chamber of the king his brother, the which was pointed out to him by the governor of Guines, who said to him, ‘Sir, he is not awake.’  But King Francis passed on all the same, went up to the said chamber, knocked at the door, awoke the King of England, and walked in.

[Illustration:  Francis I. surprises Henry VIII.——­44]

Never was man more dumbfounded than King Henry, who said to King Francis, ’Brother, you have done me a better turn than ever man did to another, and you show me the great trust I ought to have in you.  I yield myself your prisoner from this moment, and I proffer you my parole.’  He undid from his neck a collar worth fifteen thousand angels, and begged the King of France to take it and wear it that very day for his prisoner’s sake.  And, lo, the king, who wished to do him the same turn, had brought with him a bracelet which was worth more than thirty thousand angels, and begged him to wear it for his sake, which thing he did, and the King of France put what had been given him on his neck.  Thereupon the King of England was minded to get up, and the King of France said that he should have no other chamber-attendant but himself, and he warmed his shirt and handed it to him when he was up.  The King of France made up his mind to go back, notwithstanding that the King of England would have kept him to dinner; but, inasmuch as there was to be jousting after dinner, he mounted his horse and went back to Ardres.  He met a many good folk who were coming to meet him, amongst the rest l’Aventureux [a name given to Fleuranges himself], who said to him, ’My dear master, you are mad to have done what you have done; I am very glad to see you back here, and devil take him who counselled you.’  Whereupon the king said that never a soul had counselled him, and that he knew well that there was not a soul in his kingdom who would have so counselled him; and then he began to tell what he had done at the said Guines, and so returned, conversing, to Ardres, for it was not far.”

“Then began the jousts, which lasted a week, and were wondrous fine, both a-foot and a-horseback.  After all these pastimes the King of France and the King of England retired to a pavilion, where they drank together.  And there the King of England took the King of France by the collar, and said to him, ‘Brother, I should like to wrestle with you,’ and gave him a feint or two; and the King of France, who is a mighty good wrestler, gave him a turn and threw him on the ground.  And the King of England