. The story of Bayard : the good knight without fear and without reproach . e I vow to you that wepoor gentlemen have lost it ; for while we wereaway in pursuit of the enemy . . my lord ofNemours . . was killed and never was theresuch grief and lamentation as overwhelms ourcamp, for we seem to have lost everything. Ifour dear lord had lived to his full age (he wasbut twenty-four) he would have surpassed allother princes, and his memory would have enduredso long as the world shall last. . Sir, yester-day morning the body of my lord (Gaston deFoix, Due de Nemours) was borne to Milanwith the grea
. The story of Bayard : the good knight without fear and without reproach . e I vow to you that wepoor gentlemen have lost it ; for while we wereaway in pursuit of the enemy . . my lord ofNemours . . was killed and never was theresuch grief and lamentation as overwhelms ourcamp, for we seem to have lost everything. Ifour dear lord had lived to his full age (he wasbut twenty-four) he would have surpassed allother princes, and his memory would have enduredso long as the world shall last. . Sir, yester-day morning the body of my lord (Gaston deFoix, Due de Nemours) was borne to Milanwith the greatest honour we could devise, withtwo hundred men-at-arms, the many bannerstaken in this battle carried trailing on the groundbefore his body, with his own standards triumph-antly floating behind him. . We have lost THE STORY OF BAYARD 199 many other great captains, and amongst them myfriend Jacob of the German foot-soldiers. . .and I assure you that for a hundred years thekingdom of France will not recover from ourloss. . .—Your humble servitor, FlutecfArtnour about 1516
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