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_Chronique de la Pucelle_, p.264.Monstrelet, vol.iv, p.298.Jean Chartier, _Chronique_, vol.i, p.63._Mistere d'Orleans_, line 3104 _et seq._ _Chronique de la fete_ in _Trial_, vol.v, p.288.Morosini, vol.iii, p.131.Lorenzo Buonincontro in Muratori, _Rerum Italicarum Scriptores_, vol.xxi, col.136.Jarry, _Le compte de l'armee anglaise_, pp.
85, 86.] Men told how Maitre Jean de Builhons, a famous astrologer, had prophesied this death,[518] and how in the night before the fatal day, the Earl of Salisbury himself had dreamed that he was being clawed by a wolf.
A Norman clerk composed two songs on this sad death, one against the English, the other for them.
The first, which is the better, closes with a couplet, worthy in its profound wisdom of King Solomon himself:[519] Certes le duc de Bedefort Se sage est, il se tendra Avec sa femme en ung fort, Chaudement le mieulx[520] que il porra, De bon ypocras finera, Garde son corps, lesse la guerre: Povre et riche porrist en terre.[521] [Footnote 518: _Trial_, vol.iv, p.345._Chronique de la Pucelle_, p. 263.
_Journal du siege_, p.10.Vallet de Viriville, _Histoire de Charles VII_, vol.ii, p.
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