All the legends were in Latin. Inveni quem diligit anima mea.]

Farther on there were various emblems all designed to compare Philip now to Caesar, now to Pompey, now to Nebuchadnezzar.  The most humiliating spectacle was that of a man dressed in a lion’s skin, thus personifying the Lion of Flanders, leading Philip’s horse by the bridle. “Vive Bourgogne is now our cry,” was symbolised in every vehicle which the rhetoricians could invent.

Not altogether explicable is this extreme self-abnegation.  Civic prosperity must have returned in four years or there would have been no money for the outlay.  Apparently, Philip’s countenance was worth more to them than their pride.

The birth and death of two children at Genappe gave the duke new reasons for showering ostentatious favours on his guest, and furnished the dauphin with suitable occasion for addressing his own father, who answered him in kind.

The following is one of the fair-phrased epistles[l5]: 

  The King to the Dauphin, 1459. 
    “VERY DEAR AND MUCH LOVED SON: 

“We have received the letters that you wrote us making mention that on July 27 our dear and much loved daughter, the dauphiness, was delivered of a fine boy, for which we have been and are very joyous, and it seems to me that the more God our Creator grants you favour, by so much the more you ought to praise and thank Him and refrain from angering Him, and in all things fulfil His commandments.

    “Given at Compiegne, Aug.7th.

    “CHARLES.

During these five years, Charles was more or less aloof from the courts of his father and of their guest.  He spent part of the time in Holland and part at Le Quesnoy with his young wife.  The Count of St. Pol was one of his intimate friends, and a friend who managed to make many insinuations about the duke’s treatment of his son and infatuation about the Croys whom Charles hated with increasing fervency.

There is a story that Charles went from Le Quesnoy to his father’s court to demand a formal audience from the duke in order to lodge his protest against the Croys.  Evidently relations were strained when such a degree of ceremony was needed between father and son.

Gerard Ourre was commissioned to set forth the count’s grievances, and he was in the midst of his carefully prepared statement when the duke interrupted him with the curt observation:  “Have a care to say nothing but the truth and understand, it will be necessary to prove every assertion.”  The orator was discomfited, stammered on for a few moments, and then excused himself from completing his harangue.  There were only a few nobles present and all were surprised at this embarrassment, as Gerard passed for a clever man.  Then, seeing that his deputy was too much frightened to proceed, Charles took up the thread of his discourse.  In a firm voice he continued the list of accusations against the Croys, only to be cut short in his turn.  Peremptory was the duke in his command to his son to be silent and never again to refer to the subject.  Then, turning to Croy, Philip added “see to it that my son is satisfied with you,” and withdrew from the audience chamber.