Now (saith mine author, speaking to the readers of his historie) you haue séene set downe the ouer|throw of the French armie in the battell of Pauia: [...] pag [...]04. a wretched successe, where was so great expectation of victorie. You haue séene a mightie king deliue|red vp prisoner into the hands of him, with whom he contended for glorie and emperie: a spectacle most tragicall amongst all the calamities that fortune bringeth vpon mans mortalitie. You haue séene the most part of the nobilitie, and honorable capteins of France, slaine in the seruice and presence of their king: a matter that made more lamentable his owne condition and aduersitie. You haue séene the residue of that armie, so vniuersallie perplexed with feare and confusion, that the same thing that should haue reteined them in so great affliction, made them the lesse assured, and further off from confidence.

When word came to the emperour of all the for|mer accidents, Guic. pag. 915. The modera|tion and tem|perance of the emperour vp|on the newes of the victorie. the eies of euerie man were set to behold with what propertie of affection he would receiue his gladsome news, and to what ends his thoughts were disposed: who so farre as exterior de|monstrations made shew, expressed great tokens of a mind much moderated, and verie apt to resist easilie the prosperitie of fortune: yea the signes and inclinations appeering so much the more incredible, by how much he was a prince mightie & yong, and as yet had neuer tasted but of felicitie. For after he was informed truelie of so great a victorie, whereof he had the reapport the tenth of March, togither with letters of the French kings owne hand, written ra|ther in the spirit and condition of a prisoner, than with the courage of a king, he went foorthwith to the church to make his holie oblations to God with ma|nie solemnities. And the morning folowing he recei|ued with signes of right great deuotion the sacra|ment of the eucharist, and so went in procession to our ladies church out of Madrill, where was his court at that time.

His temperance and moderation was aboue the expectation of his estate, and farre contrarie to the course of the time in matters of that nature: for he would not suffer anie bels to be roong, nor boun|fires to be made, nor anie other manner of publike demonstrations, such as are vsed for glorie or glad|nesse, alledging with a mind more vertuous than in|solent, that such propertie of feasting and reioising was due to victories obteined against infidels,A most excel|lent conceipt and saieng of the emperour. but ought to haue no shew where one christian ouercame another. Neither were the actions and gestures of his person and speaches differing from so great a temperance and continencie of mind, which he well expressed in the answers he made to the congratula|tions of the ambassadours and great men that were about him: to whome he said he was not glad of the accident according to the glorious operation of flesh and bloud, but his reioising was in that God had so manfestlie aided him: which he interpreted to be an assured signe that he stood in his grace and fauour, though not through his owne merit, yet by his cele|stiall election. Ed. Hall in H. 8. fol. Cxxxvj. The French king being in the custo|die of the viceroy of Naples (who much comforted him, and praised his valiantnesse, and praied him to be content, for he shoud haue a gentle end) desired to write to his mother, which was to him granted. His verie words were these.