made since and desires to make.  Never a word was forgotten, but all was well stated, especially the case of M. de Guienne.[5] Finally, Monseigneur declared that if his lands were in security, there was nothing he would like better than to give aid to Christianity.

“After this statement, which was marvellously honest, the emperor arose from the throne, wine and spices were brought, and then Monseigneur escorted the emperor to his quarters with grand display of torches.  This is the outline of what happened on October 4th, in the said year lxxiii.  And as to the future, next Thursday the emperor will dine where Monseigneur lodges, et la fera les grants du roy,[6] and there will be novelties.  In regard to the fashion of the said emperor and his estate, he is a very fine prince and attractive, very robust, very human, and benign.  I do not know with whom to compare his figure better than Monseigneur de Croy, as he was eight or ten years ago, except that his flesh is whiter than that of the Sr. de Croy.  The emperor has seven or eight hundred horse as an escort, but the major part of the nobles present come from this locality.  In regard to Monseigneur’s departure, there is no news, and they make great cheer—­this is all for this time.”

The German scholars in the imperial party listened most attentively to the style of the Netherlander’s speech as well as to his subject-matter.  “More abundant in vocabulary than elegant in Latinity,” was their comment, a fault they considered marking all French Latin.  The audience found time to note the style for the subject of the address did not interest them greatly.  The least observant onlooker knew that the main purpose of this interview was not the plan of a Turkish campaign, though Frederic appointed a committee to discuss that, whose members, Burgundian and German in equal numbers, were instructed to study the Eastern question while emperor and duke were absorbed in other matters.[7] In their very first session, this committee decided that the chief obstacle to a Turkish expedition was the Franco-Burgundian quarrel.  This point was also raised by Charles in his first conference with Frederic.  No campaign was feasible until the European powers were ready to act in concert.  Louis XI. was aiding and abetting the heathen by being a disturbing element which rendered this desired unity impossible.  So Frederic appointed a fresh commission to discuss European peace.  And this insolvable problem was a convenient blind for other discussions.

On October 5th, a Burgundian fete gave new occasion for a display of wealth; “vulgar ostentation,” sneered the less opulent German nobles who tried to show that their pride was not wounded by the sharp contrasts between imperial habits and those of a mere duke.  On their side, the Burgundians remarked that it was a pity to waste good things on boors so little accustomed to elegantly equipped apartments that they used