[184] Interlined.

    [185] Ch. de Gontant, Duc de Biron, Marshal of France, born 1562, died
        1602.  A favourite of Henry IV, but executed for treason against
        him.

The French, tho the civilest of peaple, yet be seweral experiences we may find them the most barbarous.  Vitnes besyde him who dwellt at Porte St. Lazare, another who brunt his mother because she would not let him ly wt hir, and was brunt quick himselfe at the place in Poictiers some 5 years ago.

The French Law is that if a women be 7 years wtout hearing news of hir husband that she may marrie againe.

We have marked the German language to have many words common wt our oune, as bread, drink, land, Goet for our God; rauber; feeds,[186] inimiticiae; march, limites; fich; flech; heer, sir; our man, homo; weib for wife.

    [186] Feeds, fehde, feuds.

We have eated puddings heir also that we call sauses, which they make most usualy of suine.

We cannot passe over in silence the observation the naturalists hath of the Sow, that it hath its noble parts disposed in the same very sort they are found in a man, which may furnish us very great matter of humility, as also lead us to the consideration and sight of our bassesse, that in the disposall of our noble parts we differ nothing from that beast which we recknon amongs the filthiest.  They make great use of it in France heir.  In travelling we rencontred wery great heards.

Tuo boyes studieing the grammar in the Jesuits Colledge at Poictiers, disputing before the regent on their Lesson, the on demanded, Mater cuius generis est:  the other, knowing that the mother of the proponer had a wery ill name of a whore, replied wittily, distinguo; da distinctionem then; replied, si intelligas de mea est faeminini; si de tua, est communis (in the same sort does Rosse tel it).

The occasion of the founding that order of the Charterous in France is wery observable.  About the tyme of the wars in the Low Contries their was a man at Paris that led one of the strictest, godliest and most blameless lifes that could be, so that he was in great reputation for his holinesse.  He dies, his corps are carried to some church neir hand wheir a preist was to preach his funeral sermon the nixt day.  A great concourse of peaple who know him al weill are gathered to heir, amongs other, lead by meer curiosity, comes a Soger (Bruno) who had served in the Low Country wars against the Spaniard and had led a very dissolute, prophane, godless life.  The preist in his sermon begins to extol the person deceased and amongs other expressions he had that, that undoubtedly he was in paradis at the present.  Upon this the dead man lifted himselfe up in his coffin and cried wt a loud voice, justo dei iudicio citatus sum:  the peaple, the preist and al ware so terrified that they