The country is everywhere disturbed, and it is not only in my forests that bands of outlawed men are to be met with.

At present there is peace in Europe.

It may last indeed but a short time.

But so long as it continues, so long must the mountains and woods be full of desperate men.

Were war declared between any two princes these would flock to the banners of him who would pay them highest, and a war which could end in the entire destruction of the armies of both combatants would be a blessing to Europe." After entertaining Cuthbert courteously for three days, the Duke of Lorraine bade him adieu, and gave him an escort of men-at-arms to the borders of the Rhine, where he would find the way open to the domains of the Duke of Saxony.