These prisoners were brought to Calis, & there sold in open market. [Among all other, Abr. Fl. ex Ed. Hall in H. 8. fol. xxviij. a couper of the towne of Calis bought a prisoner of this bootie that dwelt in Bullongne, and had of the prisoner an hun|dred crowns for his ransome. When the monie was paied, the Frenchman praied the couper to sée him safe deliuered, and to conduct him out of danger.The follie of a couper. The couper gentlie granted, and without anie know|ledge of his friends, all alone went with the French|man till he came beyond the causeie, & there would haue departed: but the Frenchman perceiuing that the couper was aged, and that no reskue was nie, by force tooke the couper prisoner, and caried him to Bullongne, & made him paie two hundred crowns for his ransome: thus through follie was the poore cou|per deceiued. Wherefore it is wisedome for a man to hold fast his possession, and to supplie his want of strength by subtiltie; imitating therein the fox, which although in force he be inferior to the lion, as not able to beare the yerking of his taile, or a pelt of his paw; yet in craft he goeth beyond that boisterous beast, and so escapeth danger, which otherwise he might susteine.]

On the eleuenth day of August, being thursday, the king lieng at the siege of Terwine, had knowledge that Maximilian the emperour was in the towne of EEBO page image 820 Aire.The emperor Maximilian and the king of England meet. The king prepared all things necessarie to méet with the emperour in triumph. The noble men of the kings campe were gorgeouslie apparelled, their coursers barded with cloth of gold, of damaske and broderie, their apparell all tissue, cloth of gold and sil|uer, and goldsmiths woorke, great chains of baude|rikes of gold, and belles of bullion: but in especiall the duke of Buckingham, he was in purple sattin, his apparell and his bard full of antelops and swans of fine gold bullion, and full of spangles, & little bels of gold maruellous costlie and pleasant to behold. The K. was in a garment of great riches in iewels and stone, he was armed in a light armour. The ma|ster of his horsse followed him with a spare horsse, the henchmen followed bearing the kings péeces of harnesse, euerie one mounted on a great courser.

The one bare his helmet, the second his grangard, the third his speare, the fourth his axe, and so euerie one had something belonging to a man of armes.The kings harnesse and furniture. The apparell of the nine henchmen were white cloth of gold, and crimsin cloth of gold, richlie embrodered with goldsmithes worke, the trappers of the coursers were mantell harnesse coulpened, and in euerie vent a long bell of fine gold, and on euerie pendent a déepe tassell of fine gold in bullion, which trappers were ve|rie rich. The king and the emperour met betwéene Aire and the campe, in the foulest weather that light|lie hath béene seene. The emperour gentlie intertei|ned the king, and the king likewise him, and after a little communication had betwene them, bicause the weather was foule, they parted for that time. The em|perour & all his men were at that daie all in blacke cloth, for the empresse his wife was latelie deceased.