Since that time Charles, Duke of Burgundy, with great labour and solicitation, obtained an interview with the Emperor Frederick[234] (who is still living), and spent vast sums of money to show his grandeur and magnificence: the place of meeting was at Treves[235], where several things were discoursed of, and among the rest a marriage between their children, which was afterwards accomplished.[236] After they had been several days together, on a sudden the emperor departed without so much as taking his leave, which the Duke of Burgundy looked upon as so great an affront, and it was so generally resented, that there was never afterwards any true love between either themselves or their subjects: the Duke’s pompous and lofty manner of speaking (which they imputed to his pride) offended the Germans; and the Emperor’s meanness, both in his train and dress, appeared as contemptible to the Burgundians; and so far was this accident extended, that from it alone the wars of Nuz[237] had their origin. I was also present at an interview[238], at the town of St. Paul in Artois, between the Duke of Burgundy and Edward IV., King of England, whose sister he had married; and, besides, they were brethren of the same order.[239] They were but two days together, and yet in that small time there was great difference between the king’s servants, and both parties recommending their quarrel to the duke, and he deciding it for one of them, their hatred increased. However, he assisted the king in the recovery of his kingdom with men, money, and ships, for he had been driven out by the Earl of Warwick. Yet, notwithstanding that good office, they never loved nor spoke well of one another after this interview. I was present likewise when the Count Palatine of the Rhine made a visit[240] to the Duke of Burgundy at Brussels, where he staid several days. He was honourably received, nobly entertained, and lodged in an apartment richly furnished. The duke’s servants upbraided the Germans for their nastiness and incivility, in laying their dirty clothes and their boots upon those rich beds, and accused them of want of neatness and consideration, and they never liked them afterwards so well as they had done before. The Germans, being as much dissatisfied on the other side, reproached them for their pomp and extravagance; so that, in effect, they never loved nor did any good office for one another afterwards.