r military glory, as because his frequent use
of this sentence seems to have created some uneasiness in the mind of
Catherine de Medicis, who forbade his masters to teach him such
apophthegms for the future, saying that they were only calculated to
render him obstinate.

"It is not probable that the Queen-mother would have taken notice of
such a sentence on the lips of any ordinary child; but it is evident,
not only from the accounts of those biographers, whose works were
composed after the Prince of Bearn had risen into renown as King of
France, but by letters written while he was yet in extreme youth,
that there was something in his whole manner and demeanour which
impressed all those who knew him with a conviction of his future
greatness. We shall have hereafter to cite several of these epistles,
which give an accurate picture of the Prince at the age of thirteen
years; but before that time he had undergone a long course of
desultory instruction. At one period his education was carried on in
the chateau of Vincennes, where he remained for more than a year with
the royal children; and at another we find him studying in the
college of Navarre, together with the Duke of Anjou, who afterwards
became King under the name of Henry III., and with Henry, eldest son
of the Duke of Guise, against whom he was destined to take so
prominent a part in arms. At this early age, however, no enmity or
rivalry was apparent between the three Princes; but on the contrary,
to use the words of the memoirs of Nevers, the three Henrys had the
same affection and the same pleasures, and always displayed for one
another so uncommon a degree of complaisance, that not the slightest
dispute took place between them during the whole time they were at
the college. In regard to the course of instruction pursued with the
Prince of Bearn we have no farther information, and only know that he
acquired a sufficient knowledge of the Latin language to translate
with ease all the best writers of Rome; and that he applied himself,
though apparently with no great perseverance, to the art of drawing,
in which he displayed a considerable degree of talent--the Duke of
Nevers, or his biographer, having seen an antique vase which he had
sketched in pen and ink with a masterly hand, and under which he h