LXXIX.

French.

Le grand criard sans honte audacieux, Sera esleu Governeur le d’Armée, La hardiesse de son contentieux, Le pont rompu, Cité de peur pasmée.

English.

The great bawler proud without shame, Shall be elected Governour of the Army, The stoutness of his Competitor, The Bridge being broken, the City shall faint for fear.

ANNOT.

_Paradin_ saith, that in the year 1558. the Lord of _Bonnivet_ being dead, the King of _France_ did chuse _Francis_ of _Vendosme_, _Vidame_ of _Amiens_, to succeed the said _Bonnivet_, in the Office of Colonel of the _French_ Foot. This _Vidame_ is noted by all Historians, for a rash proud man, that had a good opinion of himself, and found fault with all the commands of the Marshal of _Brissac_, then General of the Army.

The King in consideration of his Birth, and that he was a good Souldier, gave him the place of the Lord _Bonnivet_, according to what the Author saith, _The great Bawler, ~&c.~ shall be elected Governour in the Army_. If you ask in what Army he was elected Governour, the third Verse answereth, _in the Army of his Competitor_, that is, the Marshal of _Brissac_, who did chide him severely for disobeying his commands, and was like once to have killed him.

The fourth Verse proved true at the taking of _Queiras_, where the Bridge, through which the succours came to relieve the Town, being broken, the Town grew so fearful, that it surrendred it self to the Marshal of _Brissac_.