"Ha! Le Pont d'Ain, que tu fusses péry! Lieu exécrable, anathématisé, Mal feu, puist êstre en tes tours attisé! Au moins, Princesse, en extrême guerdon, Je te requiers et te supplie ung don: C'est que mon corps n'y soit ensevely; Ains le netz en quelque lieu joy, Bien tapisesé de diverses flourettes Où pastoureaulx devisent d'amourettes." [204] Mourning and care, regret and grief and pain, Within my heart all worldly joy have slain, Wherefore, apart, I make my moan and grieve That hope no more my anguish may relieve, For see how Fate to do me hurt is fain. Far less to sudden Death would I complain, Than life drawn out--nor ever joy again; But fancy leading phantoms in her train, For here, all day, all year long, I receive Mourning and care. For complete poem see Baux's "Eglise de Brou," p. 66. [205] The first, adopted after her dismissal from the Court of France by Charles VIII., was a windswept mountain, with the motto, "Perflant altissimo venti." The second, taken after the death of John Castille, and her child by him, was a fruit tree split by lightning. [206] This enigmatic device has been variously deciphered, but two contemporary authors agree in interpreting it "_Fortuna infortunat fortiter unam_," which means "Fortune tries cruelly a woman." Murray's guide gives incorrectly, "Fortune infortune forte une," meaning "Here is a woman strong in fortune or in misfortune." [207] Beaux's "Eglise de Brou," p. 57. [208] The fabric, however, does not seem to have suffered as much from the quarrels of the builders, as from the extraordinary failure of the architect to provide efficiently for carrying away the roof water, with the result that heavy rains nearly destroyed the building before even it was finished. Loys had probably forgotten structural soundness in his efforts to satisfy his employer's passion for decorative effect. [209] Matthew Arnold's poem, "The Church of Brou," is marred by a number of unnecessary inaccuracies. Philibert was not slain by a boar, he died of pleurisy. Marguerite's Tomb is at the "Crossing East of the Choir," and not in the nave, moreover, the poet seems so uncertain whether the Church is in the mountain or in the valley, that one is led to doubt whether he really knew. [210] "Description Historique de la belle église et du couvent royal de Brou." Quoted Beaux pp. 126-8. [211] Baux points out that the church does not contain one statue of St. Nicholas of Tolentin, its patron saint. [212] Michelet vii. cap. xii. [213] Francis I. [Illustration: ·SKETCH MAP TO· ILLUSTRATE P. ALLEN'S "BURGUNDY" _Facing page 292._] INDEX PAGE Abélard 89, 146, 153 " At Paris 146