'The man must die,' he told the Dauphin of Auvergne, 'even though he have spoken the truth.

As to that I am not sure, I am not yet informed.

But he is not fit to live on any ground.

By these slanders of his he has disgraced the name and outraged the honour of the most lovely lady in the world, whose truest misfortune is to be his sister; by the same token I must punish him for the dignity of the lady I am (at present) designed to wed.

She is always the daughter of his liege-lord.