221, 222 _et seq._] [Footnote 848: Shakespeare, _Henry VI_, part i, act i, scene ii.
According to M.G.Duval the first part of this play was adapted from one of Shakespeare's predecessors.] A sudden humiliation still further weakened the English.

Captain Poton de Saintrailles and the two magistrates, Guyon du Fosse and Jean de Saint-Avy, who had gone on an embassy to the Duke of Burgundy, returned to Orleans on the 17th of April.

The Duke had granted their request and consented to take the town under his protection.

But the Regent, to whom the offer had been made, would not have it thus.
He replied that he would be very sorry if after he had beaten the bush another should go off with the nestlings.[849] Therefore the offer was rejected.

Nevertheless the embassy had been by no means useless, and it was something to have raised a new cause of quarrel between the Duke and the Regent.