The Voyage of the Campe of Amiens, 1558.
THe King sent me to Dourlan, and made me to be conducted by Captaine Govas•• with fifty men in armes, for feare I should be taken by the enemies. And seeing that in the way we were alwayes in alarums, I caused my man to alight, making him to be my master for that time, and I got upon his horse, which carryed my male, and tooke his cloake and hat, and gave him my ambling Mare. My man being upon her backe, one would have taken him for the master, and I for the servant. Those of Dourlan seeing us farre off, thought we were enemies, and let flye their Cannon shot at us. Captaine Govas•• my conductor, made signe with his hat, that we were not e∣nemies, so that they left shooting, and we entred into Dourlan with great joy. Those of Dourlan made a sally forth, upon the enemies five or sixe dayes before, who kild and hurt diverse of our Captaines, and good souldiers; and amongst the rest Captaine St. Aubin valiant at the sword, whom Monsieur de Guise loved very well, and for whom chiefely the King sent me thither, who being in the fit of a quar∣taine feaver, would needes goe out to command the greatest part of his company: a Spaniard seeing him that he commanded, perceived hee was a Captaine, and shot a musket bullet quite through his necke; my Captaine Saint Aubin thought with this stroake he was dead, and with the feare (I protest to God) he lost his quartane ague, and was altogether freed from it. I dressed him with Anthony Portall Chirurgion in ordinary to the King, and divers other Souldiers: some dyed, others escaped quit with the losse of a legge, or an arme, or the losse of an eye, and they sayd they es∣caped good cheape, escape that can. When the enemie had broke their Campe, I returned to Paris. Heere I hold my peace of my little master, who was more at ease in his house than I at the Warres.