te 532: Claude de l'Aubespine, Histoire particuliere de la cour
du Roy Henry II. (Cimber et Danjou), iii. 277.]

[Footnote 533: "Onorevolissimo universal carico che tiene." Relazioni
Venete, ii. 166. It is somewhat painful to find from a letter of
Margaret of Navarre, written after Henry's accession, that this amiable
princess was compelled to depend, for the continuance of her paltry
pension of 25,000 livres as sister of Francis, upon the kind offices of
the constable. Lettres de Marguerite d'Angouleme, t. i., No. 154. The
king's affection for Montmorency was so demonstrative that he ordered
that, after their death, the constable's heart and his own should be
buried together in a single monument, as an indication to posterity of
his partiality. Jod. Sincerus (Itinerarium Galliae, 1627, pp. 281-284)
takes the trouble to transcribe not less than three of the epitaphs in
the Church of the Celestines, in which Montmorency receives more than
his proportion of fulsome praise.]

[Footnote 534: Relazioni Venete, ii. 175, 176.]

[Footnote 535: De Thou, i. 237, 245.]

[Footnote 536: A contemporary writer (_apud_ De Thou, i. 237, note)
pretends to cite the monarch's precise words. The current quatrain was
the following:

Le feu roy devina ce poinct,
Que ceux de la maison de Guyse,
Mettroyent ses enfans en pourpoint,
Et son pauvre peuple en chemise.

Regnier de la Planche, Hist. de l'estat de France sous Francois II., ed.
Pantheon lit., p. 261. The lines are given, with a few variations, by
almost every history of the times; Recueil des choses memorables, etc.,
1565, p. 31; Memoires de Conde, i. 533. De Thou is a firm believer in
the truth of the vulgar report (_ubi supra_), and even Davila (Eng.
trans. of Sir Charles Cottrell, 1678, p. 7) admits that later events
have added much credit to the current belief.]

[Footnote 537: By arrangement with his elder brother Antoine (A. D.
1530), Claude received, as his portion of the paternal estate, four or
five considerable seigniories enclosed within the territorial limits of
France: _Guise_ on the north, not far from the boundary of the
Netherlands; _Aumale_ and _Elbeuf_ in Normandy; _Mayenne_ in Maine, on
the borders of Brittany; and _Joinville_, in Champagne, on the
northeastern frontier of the kingdom; besides others of minor
importance. Calmet, Hist. de Lorraine (Nancy, 1752), v. 481, 482.]

[Footnote 538: De Thou draws no flattering sketch of his course: "L