fendid
with him; and in great feare, that shortly all wil be worse than ever it
was. Et quia nunc prodit causam religionis, as they say, dia ten
rhathumian autou kai psychroteta pros ta kala, and begynnes even now
gunaikomanein, as the other did; they thinke plainly, that he will declare
himself, ere it be long, unkiend to God, to us, and to himself; being won
by the papists, either with reward of Balaam, or ells with Cozbi the
Midianite, to adjoigne himself to Baal-peor." Forbes, State Papers, ii.
385.

[307] "Le bon prince," says Brantome, "estoit aussi mondain qu'un autre,
et aimoit autant la femme d'autruy que la sienne, tenant fort du naturel
de ceux de la race de Bourbon, qui ont este fort d'amoureuse complexion."
Hommes illustres, M. le Prince de Conde. Granvelle wrote to the Emperor
Ferdinand from Besancon (April 12, 1564), that word had come from France,
"que le prince de Conde y entendoit au service des dames plus qu'en aultre
chose, et assez froid en la religion des huguenotz." Papiers d'etat, vii.
467.

[308] See Bayle's art. on Isabeau de Limueil; J. de Serres, iii. 45, 46;
De Thou, iii. (liv. xxxv.) 42.

[309] Jean de Serres, iii. 50, 51; De Thou, iii. (liv. xxxv.) 412, 413.
Cf. Bolwiller to Cardinal Granvelle, Sept. 4, 1564, Papiers d'etat du
cardinal de Granvelle, viii. 305. See, however, the statements in chapter
xvi. of this history.

[310] His revenue from his county of Soissons was not 1,000 crowns a year,
and he had little from his other possessions (Le Laboureur, ii. 611).
Secretary Courtewille, in his secret report (Dec., 1561), states that the
Huguenot nobles of the first rank were in general poor--Vendome, Conde,
Coligny, etc.--and that were it not for a monthly sum of 1,200 crowns,
which the Huguenots furnished to Conde, and 1,000 which the admiral
received in similar manner, they would hardly know how to support
themselves. Papiers d'etat du card. de Granv., vi. 440.

[311] Mary herself, however, writing to her aunt, the Duchess of Aerschot
(Nov. 6, 1564), represents the offer of marriage as made by Conde, both to
her grandmother and to her uncle the cardinal: "a qui il a fait toutes les
belles offres du monde." Papiers d'etat du card. de Granv., viii. 481.

[312] Jean de Serres, iii. 32, 33.

[313] Ibid., iii. 45, 46; De Thou, iii. (liv. xxxv.) 414; D'Aubigne, Hist.
univ., i. 197.

[314] On the upper Tarn, in the modern department of the Aveyron.

[315] The very important documents