. Robert Ramble's [pseud.] stories selected from the history of England, from the conquest to the revolution . hwhich he entered Italy. Charles the Fifth was a mf bad kin<r. Who else would trust a traitor ? O After much hard fighting, Bourbon arrived be-fore the city of Pavia, where he fought againsthis own king and countrymen, and he succeededin taking Francis prisoner, although the king didnot surrender personally to Bourbon circumstances attending Franciss capturewere as follows:—Though wounded in severalplaces, and thrown from his horse, which waskilled under him. Francis de
. Robert Ramble's [pseud.] stories selected from the history of England, from the conquest to the revolution . hwhich he entered Italy. Charles the Fifth was a mf bad kin<r. Who else would trust a traitor ? O After much hard fighting, Bourbon arrived be-fore the city of Pavia, where he fought againsthis own king and countrymen, and he succeededin taking Francis prisoner, although the king didnot surrender personally to Bourbon circumstances attending Franciss capturewere as follows:—Though wounded in severalplaces, and thrown from his horse, which waskilled under him. Francis defended himself onfoot with an heroic courage. Many of hisbravest officers gathering round him, and en-deavouring to save his life at the expense oftheir own, fell at his feet. Among these wasBonivet, the author of this great calamity, whoalone died unlamented. The king, exhaustedwith fatigue, and scarcely capable of further re-sistance, was left almost alone, exposed to thefury of some Spanish soldiers, strangers to hisrank, and enraged at his obstinacy. At thatmoment came up Pomperant, a French gentle-. (146) BOURBON, THE TRAITOR. 147 man, who had entered, together with Bourbon,into the emperors service; and, placing himselfby the side of the monarch against whom he hadrebelled, assisted in protecting him from the vio-lence of the soldiers; at the same time, beseech-ing him to surrender to Bourbon, who was notfar distant. Imminent as the danger was which ^3 now surrounded Francis, he rejected, with indig-nation, the thoughts of an action which wouldhave afforded such matter of triumph to his trai-torous subject; and, calling for Launoy, who hap-pened likewise to be near at hand, gave up hissword to him; which he, kneeling to kiss thekings hand, received with profound respect, and,taking his own sword from his side, presented itto him, saying, 4i That it did not become so greata monarch to remain disarmed in the presenceof one of the emperors subjects. (See the en-graving on
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