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THE HISTORY of LEVVIS the XI.
THE FIFTH BOOKE.
THE Duke of Normandy was no sooner ad∣uertised that the King had promised by the Treaty of Peronne to giue him the Contries of Champaigne and Brie for his portion but hee presently besought him to giue him leaue to goe thither, and not to suf∣fer him to languish any longer, for the enioy∣ing of his rest and quiet, the cheefe part whereof consisted in not beeing troubled to seeke it.a
The King who had promised nothing freely, thought to discharge himselfe of his promises at a better rate. Hee wonne the Sigr. of Lescun,b who was his Brothers whole Councell, to perswade him to be conformable to his intentions, and to rest satisfied not with that which he desired, but with what should be offered him. Yet this practise was not so secret but the Duke of Bourgondy was aduerti∣sed by the Cardinall Bal••e, a double heart and a turbulent spirit full of passion, who wrate vnto him that the King treated with his Brother, that they made no mention of him, and that hee should looke to his busines. This letter being surprised, lodged him in a Cage of Ironc for a prison from the which hee was not freed but by the Popes intercession, and towards the end of this raigne. These Cages were of his inuention,d part wood, part iron, and couered with plates of Iron, so Perillus was rosted in the bull which he had inuented.
The King being returned into France, whereas they talked of his indiscretion and great credulity in trusting his enemie, set a good countenance of it, and made shew that what had beene done at Pe∣ronne had been as beneficiall vnto him as if it had beene resolued, in Paris,e but to put other fancies into the heads of the Parisiens and other discourses into their mouthes, hee caused a proclamati∣on to be made by the trumpet, that all birds which are kept in Ca∣ges, as Pyes, Iayes and such like, should bee brought vnto him to