[1] The French king in this meane while had assem|bled a mightie power; ouer the which he had made monsieur Robert de Estoutuile capteine, whome he sent to Artois, to defend the frontiers there against the king of Englands entrie, and he himselfe tarried still at Senlis: but though he shewed countenance thus of warre, yet inwardlie desirous of peace, ac|cording to the aduise giuen him by the English he|rald, he caused a varlet or yeoman (as I may call him) to be put in a coat armour of France, which for hast was made of a trumpet baner. For king Lewes was a man nothing precise in outward shewes of honor, oftentimes hauing neither officer of armes, trumpet in his court, nor other roiall appurtenances belonging to the port of a prince, which should be glo|rious and replenished with pompe, as the poet saith:

Regia mirifici fulgent insignia regis.