About this time, Iohn Ia. Triuulce, whome nei|ther old age reduced almost to the last time,The death of Iohn Ia Tri|uulce, a noble seruitour in the French affaires. nor his vertue so oftentimes expressed in the seruice of the truce of France could anie waie aid or comfort (be|ing both ambicious and impatient, and therefore en|uied) following the French court, fell sicke at Char|ters, where he gaue vp to the king, his innocencie and complaints, and made to God the last reckoning of his aged daies. He was a man in the iudgement of manie, and confirmed by sundrie experiences, of singular valour in the discipline of warre, and ran a race alwaies opposed to the inconstancie of fortune, who (according to hir mutabilitie) made him feele the operation of both hir humors, sometimes reioising in hir fauour, and erst againe finding hir sowre and of a bitter tast. By his commandement were writ|ten vpon his toome these words, not disagreeable to the variable condition and course of his naturall life:

I find the rest within my graue,

Which in my life I could not haue.]

Compare 1577 edition: 1 EEBO page image 851 The death of the emperour Maximilian [...]. pag 763.In this yeare the twelfe of Februarie, died the emperour Maximilian, for whome the king caused a solemne obsequie to be kept in Poules church. ¶ Hée died at Luiz, a towne vpon the marches of Austrich, where he remained for his delight and plesure in hunting the wild bore, and other chases of the field. He liued alwaies vnder one condition of fortune, [...] description of the empe| [...]s qualities. who manie times fauoured him, in offering him ma|nie faire occasions, & as often wrought against him in not suffering him to take the fruit and effect of them. He was by nature inconstant and remooue|able, and had conceipts and impressions verie ill dis|posed and different from the iudgement of other men, ioined to an excessiue prodigalitie and dissipati|on of monie.

Matters which cut off from him the effects and successe of all occasions, being otherwise a prince most perfect and instructed in the ordering of warre, secret to laie and dispose a plot, diligent to follow it, of bodie able and suffering, of mind affable and easie, and replenished with manie other excellent gifts and ornaments. Unto some of these properties, the good seruice which he did the king of England at Terwin giueth proofe, at what time both he and his people marched vnder the English ensigne, and receiued paie as stipendarie souldiors; whose wages the king had a care to paie, as maie appeare by his coining of siluer monie, whereof was scarsitie in his campe, in respect of gold, wherewith the souldiors were well stored, as one dooth verie well make report, saieng:

Pro mercede nihil nisifuluum soluitur aurum,

Auri militibus radiantis copia totis

Tanta fuit castris, vt rex cudisse coactus

Nummum exargento fuerit.