32.] [Footnote 519: L.Jarry, _Deux chansons normandes, Orleans_, 1894, in 8vo, p.

11.] [Footnote 520: The text published by M.Jarry has _mielux_.] [Footnote 521: Certes that wise man the Duke of Bedford, will keep himself in a fortress with his wife as snug as may be.

He will drink good hypocras (a kind of wine).

He looks after himself, leaves warfare and the poor and rich to rot in the ground.] The day after the taking of Les Tourelles and when its loss had been remedied as best might be, the King's lieutenant-general entered the town.

He was le Seigneur Jean, Count of Porcien and of Montaing, Grand Chamberlain of France, son of Duke Louis of Orleans, who had been assassinated in 1407 by order of Jean-Sans-Peur, and whose death had armed the Armagnacs against the Burgundians.