request
placed her gloved hand upon his heart, whereupon he pressed
it so closely, whilst declaring to her the love he had so
long borne her, that she withdrew it, leaving in its place
her glove. And this glove he afterwards enriched with gems
and fastened upon his doublet above his heart, and showed
himself so graceful and virtuous a lover that he never
sought any more intimate favour of her_.

King Louis the Eleventh (1) sent the Lord de Montmorency to England as
his ambassador, and so welcome was the latter in that country that the
King and all the Princes greatly esteemed and loved him, and even
made divers of their private affairs known to him in order to have his
counsel upon them.

1 Some of the MS. say Louis XII., but we cannot find that
either the eleventh or twelfth Louis sent any Montmorency as
ambassador to England. Ripault-Desormeaux states, however,
in his history of this famous French family, that William de
Montmorency, who, after fighting in Italy under Charles
VIII. and Louis XII., became, governor of the Orleanais and
_chevalier d'honneur_ to Louise of Savoy was one of the
signatories of the treaty concluded with Henry VIII. of
England, after the-battle of Pavia in 1525. We know that
Louise, as Regent of France, at that time sent John Brinon
and John Joachim de Passano as ambassadors to England, and
possibly William de Montmorency accompanied them, since
Desormeaux expressly states that he guaranteed the loyal
observance of the treaty then negotiated. William was the
father of Anne, the famous Constable of France, and died May
24, 1531. "Geburon," in the dialogue following the above
tale, mentions that he had well known the Montmorency
referred to, and speaks of him as of a person dead and gone.
It is therefore scarcely likely that Queen Margaret alludes
to Francis de Montmorency, Lord of La Rochepot, who was only
sent on a mission to England in 1546, and survived her by
many years.--L. and Ed.

One day, at a banquet that the King gave to him, he was seated beside a
lord (2) of high lineage, who had on his doublet a little glove, such
as women wear, fastened with hooks of gold and so adorned upon the
finger-seams with diamonds, rubies, emeralds and pearls, that it was
indeed a glove of great price.

2 The French word is _Millor (Milord)_ and thi