might there be somewhat relaxed.

'The good wine of Arbois,' _la meilleure cave de Bourgougne_, a judicious old writer says, had free entry into all the towns of the Comte; and when Burgundy was becoming imperial, Maximilian extended this privilege through all the towns of the empire.

A hundred years later, it had so high a character, that the troops of Henri IV.

turned away from the town, announcing that they did not wish to attack _ceulx estoient du naturel de leur vin, qui frappe partout_;[26] and the king was forced to come himself, with his constable and marshals, to beat down the walls, in the course of which undertaking his men felt the vigour of the inhabitants to a greater extent than he liked.

It is said that when he had taken the town, the municipality received him in state, and supplied him with wine of the country.