¶Of the aduenture of a daunce that was made at Parys in lykenesse of wodehowses / wherin the Frenche Kynge was in parell of dethe. Cap. C.xcii. (Book 192)
IT fortuned / that sone after the retaynmge of this foresayd knyght / a mary∣age was made in the kyn∣ges house / bytwen a yonge knyght of Vermandoys / and one of the quenes gen∣tylwomen / and bycause they were bothe of the kynges house / the kinges vncles and other lor¦des / ladyes / and damoselles made great try∣umphe. There was the dukes of Orlyaunce / Berrey / and Burgoyne / & their wyues / daun∣synge and makynge great ioye. The kynge made a great supper to the lordes and ladyes and the quene kepte her estate / desirynge eue∣ry man to be mery. And there was a squyer of Normandy called Hogreymen of Gensay / he aduysed to make some pastyme. The daye of the maryage whiche was on a tuesday before Candelmas / he prouyded for a mummery a¦gaynst nyght. He deuysed syxe cotes made of lynen clothe / couered with pytche and theron flare lyke heare / and had them redy in a cham¦bre. The kynge put on one of them / and therle of Iouy / a yonge lusty knyght another / and syr Charles of Poicters the thyrde / who was sonne to the erle of Valentenoys / and to syr y∣uan of Foiz another / and the sonne of the lord Nanthorillet had on the fyfte / and the squy∣er hym selfe had on the syxte. And whan they where thus arayed in these sayd cotes and so∣wed fast in them / they semed lyke wylde wode houses full of beare fro the toppe of the heed to the sowle of ye foote. This deuyse pleased well the frenche kynge / and was well content with the squyer for it. They were aparelled in these cotes secretly in a chamre that no man knewe therof / but such as holpe them. Whan syr yuan of Foiz had well aduysed these cores / he sayd to the kynge. Syr cōmaunde straytely that no man aproche nere vs with any torches or fyre / for if the fyre fasten in any of these cotes / we shall all be brent without remedy. the king aunswered and sayd / yuan ye speke well and