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Bacon

CHAPTER II
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Whereunto Mr.Bacon answered: "'It was not the company you carried with you but the assistance you hoped for in the City which you trusted unto.

The Duke of Guise thrust himself into the streets of Paris on the day of the Barricades in his doublet and hose, attended only with eight gentlemen, and found that help in the city which (thanks be to God) you failed of here.

And what followed?
The King was forced to put himself into a pilgrim's weeds, and in that disguise to steal away to scape their fury.

Even such was my Lord's confidence too, and his pretence the same--an all-hail and a kiss to the City.

But the end was treason, as hath been sufficiently proved.


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