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.

In this estate of aduersitie the people set before their eies all that feare and despaire could imagine: Guic. pag. 625. The manifold passions or perplexities of the people in generall. they doubted least so great a calamitie were not the beginning of a further ruine & subuersion: they saw their king prisoner, and with him either taken or slaine in the battell the chiefteins of the kingdome, which in the imagination of their sorrowes they held a losse irreparable: they beheld their capteins dis|comfited, and their souldiers discouraged: a calamitie which stopped in them all hope to be readdressed or re|assured: they saw the realme made naked of mo|nie and treasure, and inuironed with most mightie enimies: an affliction which most of all caried their thoughts into the last cogitation of desperat ruine: for the king of England, notwithstanding that he had holden manie parlées and treaties, and shewed in manie things a variation of mind, yet not manie daies before the battell, he had cut off all the nego|ciations which he had interteined with the king, and had published that he would descend into France, if the things of Italie tooke anie good successe.