assical allusions of which the age was so fond, she writes: "Ne
trouvez etrange, je vous supplie, si j'ai essaye de reveiller vostre plume
pour laisser a la posterite autant de temoignages de la vertu de feu
monseigneur et mari, que nos ennemis la veulent designer," etc. Bulletin,
vi. 29.

[682] "La France aura beaucoup de maux avec vous, et puis sans vous; mais
en fin tout tombera sur l'Espagnol." Agrippa d'Aubigne, i. 283.

[683] Agrippa d'Aubigne, _ubi supra_.

[684] Berger de Xivrey, Lettres missives de Henri IV. (Paris, 1843), i. 7.

[685] Histoire de Charles IX. par le sieur Varillas (Cologne, 1686), ii.
161, 162. I am glad to embrace this opportunity of quoting a historian in
whose statements of facts I have as seldom the good fortune to concur as
in his general deductions of principles. M. de Thou (iv. 182) remarks in a
similar spirit: "Il fit voir a la France (et ses ennemis meme en
convinrent) qu'il etoit capable de soutenir lui seul tout le parti
Protestant dont on croyoit auparavant qu'il ne soutenoit qu'une partie."

[686] Ranke (Civil Wars and Monarchy), 241; the statement of Jean de
Serres, iii. 325, would make the total number a little larger; the
accounts of Agrippa d'Aubigne, i. 285, and De Thou, iv. 185, make it
somewhat smaller.

[687] Adviz, etc., La Mothe Fenelon, i. 363.

[688] De Thou, iv. 184; Jean de Serres, iii. 320-323. This was in
February. It was the more natural for Wolfgang to defend his course, as he
was himself an ancient ally of the King of Spain. In the Papiers d'etat du
card. de Granvelle, ix. 567, we have the text of a compact formed Oct. 1,
1565: "Lettres de Service accordees par le roi d'Espagne a Wolfgang, comte
Palatin et duc de Deux Ponts." According to this document, the duke was
bound for three years to obey Philip's summons, although he refused to
pledge himself to do anything directly or indirectly against the Augsburg
Confession or its supporters.

[689] Journal d'un cure ligueur (Jehan de la Fosse), 104.

[690] Letter of Charles IX. to La Mothe Fenelon, May 14, 1569, Corresp.
dipl., vii. 20, 21. The same incredulity respecting the possibility of
Deux Ponts's enterprise is expressed by the anonymous author of a
memorandum of a journey through France, in Documents inedits tires des
MSS. de la bibl. royale, iv. 493. It is alluded to in the "Remonstrance"
of the Protestant princes presented after the junction of the armies. Jean
de Serres, iii. 337.

[691] Castelna