The French K. is not a litle glad of his li|bertie.Assoone as the king was on the other side of the shore, his new libertie making him fearefull of am|bush, he mounted vpon a Turkish horsse of a woon|derfull swiftnesse, which was prepared for the pur|pose: and running betweene feare and gladnesse vp|on the spurre, he neuer staied till he came to S. Iohn de Lus, a towne of his obedience, foure leagues from the place. And being there readilie relieued with a fresh horsse, he ran with the same swiftnesse to Baion, where, after he had passed ouer the offices of court doone to him by his people, he dispatched with great diligence a gentleman to the king of England, to whom he wrote with his owne hand let|ters of his deliuerie,The king of England the procurer of the French kings libertie. charging the messenger vnder verie louing commission, to tell the king of Eng|land, that as he acknowledged the effect of his liber|tie to be wrought wholie by him and his operations, so in recompense, he offered to remaine to him a per|petuall and assured friend, and to be guided in all his affaires by his counsell. And afterwards he sent an other solemne ambassage into England, to ratifie the peace which his mother had made with him, as one that reapposed a verie great foundation in the amitie of that king.

Guic. pag. 968.When the French king was gotten into Baion, being required by a gentleman of the viceroys,The French king is [...] verie [...] to ratifie the accord. to ratifie the accord according to the obligation of his word, being come into a place free and assured, he de|ferred it from one daie to another, interposing rea|sons and excuses generall: wherin, to the end to hold still the emperour in hope, he sent to aduertise him by a man especiall, that he forbare for the present to accomplish the ratification, not by omission or wil|ling negligence, but vpon this necessitie, that before he procéeded reallie to such an act, he was to labour to reappease and reduce the minds of his subiects ill contented with the obligations he had made, ten|ding to the diminution of the crowne of France. Neuerthelesse, he would in his time resolue all diffi|culties, and obserue with fidelitie all that he had pro|mised to him, both in substance and circumstance. By this dealing, no lesse doubtfull for the manner, than dangerous in meaning, might easilie be com|prehended what were his intentions, the same be|ing more manifestlie detected at the arriuall of the messengers sent to him not manie daies after, by the pope and Uenetians, in whome was no great néed of industrie or labour, to sound out the plaine course of his inclination.

For,The French king compla [...]|neth vpon the emp [...]rour to the messen|gers sent from the pope and the Ue|netians. after he had receiued them with manie de|monstrations and offices of court, he interteined them seuerallie and apart with sundrie spéeches of compassion, such as tended to manifest complaints against the inhumanitie of the emperour: who he said did neuer administer to him during his capti|uitie, anie one office apperteining to the ranks of a prince, nor at anie time shewed himselfe touched with that affection and commiseration which one prince ought to expresse in the calamities of another: and much lesse would vse anie course of common comfort, either to relieue the heauinesse of his condi|tion with anie propertie of apt consolation, or once to enter into consideration, that the same accident that had fallen vpon him, might also be as heauilie heaped vpon his owne head. In this complaint, he alleaged the example of Edward king of England called of some Edward Long-shanke. To whome when was presented as prisoner Iohn king of the Frenchmen,The king of England al|ledged by the French king as a preside [...] of humanitie in the case of a captiue king. taken by the prince of Wales his son in the battell of Poitiers, he did not onelie receiue him with great comfort and compassion of his afflic|ted case, but also, all the time of his imprisonment within the realme of England, he let him go at liber|tie vnder a frée gard.