Which having said, he thrust himself under the Gate, where three or four men might stand sheltered by the planks of the Fort, and having his Sword in the left hand, and his dagger in the right, he began to break and cut the Brick and made a hole, which opening by degrees, he thrust his arm through, and pulled the gap so strongly, that he caused all the Wall to fall down upon himself, without being hurt by it. This is the meaning of the Author in the fourth Verse; when he saith, _the quick Gascon was behind the Wall_; In prosecution of this, the Switzers did beat down the rest of the Wall, and all came into the Town crying, _France, France_. _Monluc_ ran presently to the Fort, and with the help of his men took it, that is the meaning of the Author, when he saith, _old and new Pallace to graple_. The old Pallace was adjoining to the Market-place of the Town, in which the _French_ were prisoners with the Captain _Gourgues_, to the number of fifty or sixty tied two and two, and so kept by twenty Souldiers, whom they did kill as we have said. The new Pallace was the Fort. The Author used that ancient word _grapper_, which in the _Provencal_ languague signifieth, to pull down with ones hands, and in the contrary sense, to shut and plaister so well some thing, that there will be a necessity of the help of the hands to open what was shut up. XL. French. Pres de _Quentin_ dans la Forest _Bourlis_, Dans l’Abbaye seront _Flamands_ tranchez, Les deux puisnez de coups my estourdis, Suitte appressée & gardes tous hachez. English. Near _Quentin_ in the Forrest _Bourlis_, In the Abby the _Flemmings_ shall be slashed, The two younger sons half a stonished with blows, The followers oppressed, and the Guards all cut in pieces. ANNOT. This is a peculiar accident that happened before the taking of the Town of Saint _Quentin_ by the _Spaniard_ in the year 1557. and fell out thus. News being come to the King of _France_, that the powerful Army of the _Spaniard_ was gone to Besiege St. _Quentin_, he made all imaginable diligence to succour it; the _Spaniards_ to hinder the relief had seized upon an ancient Abby of the _Vermandois_, which is in the next Forrest, that was anciently called the Forrest _Bourlis_, and is at present called the Forrest of the _Abbay Vermandois_, called in Latine _Augusta Veromanduorum_, builded by an ancient _Hungarian_ Captain called _Vermandig_. In process of time it was all ruinated, and only one Abby left, wherein was the Episcopal See, which afterwards was transferred into the City of _Noyon_. After the ruine of this Town, that of St. _Quentin_ next to it became the chief City of _Vermandois_; It was named St. _Quentin_, because the Emperor _Dioclesian_ having sent St. _Quentin_ a _Roman_ Senator to be Governour of it, he did convert the Inhabitants to the Christian Faith, and after he himself did suffer there Martyrdom.