[77] He was Ambassador for the two Queens, _i.e._, Mary Queen of Hungary and Leonora Queen of Portugal and France, sisters of Charles V. and Ferdinand, who after their widowhood lived together in the Netherlands till the abdication of Charles V., when they accompanied their brother to Spain. [78] _Ecuyer (escuier) trenchant._ The first of these words supplies the derivations for two English titles (1) squire, (2) sewer; the first being the equivalent of _écuyer_, and the second of _écuyer trenchant_. The office of sewer (_écuyer trenchant_) is alluded to by Milton, _Paradise Lost_, ix., where the poet speaks of _Marshall’d_ feast Served up in hall by _sewers_ and _seneschals_. ‘Here,’ says Todd in his note, ‘is an allusion to the magnificence of elder days; the _marshal of the hall_, the _sewer_ and the _seneschal_ having been officers of distinction in the houses of princes and great men. From Minshew’s _Guide into Tongues_ it appears that the marshal placed the guests according to their rank, and saw they were properly arranged, the sewer marched in before the meats and arranged them on the table, and the seneschal was the household steward, a name of frequent occurrence in old law books, and so in French “le grand Seneschal de France,” synonymous with our “Lord High Steward of the King’s household.”’ Busbecq himself held the offices of sewer and seneschal. See Appendix, _Sauvegarde &c._, where Parma gives him the title of ‘Grand maistre d’hostel de la Royne Isabelle.’ [79] See page 9. [80] See Lipsius’ Letters, _Centuria_ i. 5: ‘Prandium mihi hodie apud _heroem_ nostrum (non enim virum dixerim) Busbequium. Post prandium longiusculæ etiam fabulæ; sed _de litteris ut apud eum solet_.’ Vienna, June 13, 1572. It was at Vienna that Lipsius first made Busbecq’s acquaintance (Lipsius, _Cent._ iii. 87); they afterwards corresponded with each other (_Cent._ i. 17, 18, 34, 63). Lipsius felt his death deeply, and wrote of him in the strongest terms of affection and regret. (_Cent._ ii. _ad Belgas_, 78). The following inscription is from his hand:— IN AUGERII GISLENI BUSBEQUII TRISTEM MORTEM ET SITUM. Augerius istic est situs Busbequius. Quis ille? Quem virtutis et prudentiæ, Habuêre carum, gratiâ, ipsi Cæsares. Hunc aula eorum vidit, aula et extera Asiæ Tyranni. Quæ viri felicitas! Probavit hæc et illa: in omni tempore, In munere omni, Nestorem se præbuit Linguâ atque mente. Jam quies eum sibi Et patria hæc spondebat; ecce sustulit Viam per ipsam miles incertum an latro. Sed sustulit, simulque sidus Belgicæ, Quod nunc choreas fulget inter astricas. Justus Lipsius magno amico exiguum monumentum P.