Cavalli is charitably inclined to ascribe his misfortune rather to the
lack of the right men to execute his designs, than to any fault of his
own. Rel. des Amb. Ven., Tommaseo, i. 282.]

[Footnote 219: "Sire, vous en seriez marri le premier, et vous en
prendroit tres mal, et y perdriez plus que le pape; car une nouvelle
religion, mise parmi un peuple, ne demande apres que changement du
prince." Brantome, M. l'Admiral de Chastillon, Oeuvres, ix. 202.]

[Footnote 220: Brantome, Femmes illustres: Marguerite, reine de Navarre.
Also Homines ill.: Francois premier (Oeuvres, vii. 256, 257).]

[Footnote 221: The Bulletin de la Soc. de l'hist. du prot. franc., v.
380, 381, publishes from a MS. in the library of the Louvre, an order
from Francis I., countersigned by Bayard, directing his treasurer to pay
to "Cecille de Viefville, _dame des filles de joye suivans nostre
court_," the sum of forty-five livres tournois. This gift is to be
shared with "_les autres femmes de sa voccation_," as she and they shall
see fit, and to be received as "a New-Year's present for the first of
January past, such as it has been customary from all time to make." The
last clause may have been inserted for the purpose of palliating the
disgraceful usage. This precious document is followed by Cecile's
receipt, dated, like the order, Hesdin, February 18, 1539 (1540 New
Style).]

[Footnote 222: Ch. de Sainte-Marthe, Oraison funebre, 1550, _apud_
Genin, i. 3.]

[Footnote 223:

_Une doulceur_ assise en belle face,
_Qui la beaulte des plus belles efface_;
D'un regard chaste ou n'habite nul vice;

. . . . . . . .

Tons ces beaulx dons et mille davantaige
Sont en ung corps ne de hault parentaige,
Et de grandeur tant droicte et bien formee,
Que faicte semble expres pour estre aymee
D'hommes et dieux.

--Ined. Epistle of Marot to Margaret, prefixed to Genin, Notice, xiii.,
xiv. One of the two crayons of Margaret by contemporary artists,
reproduced by Niel, Portraits des personnages illustres, etc., tome ii.,
was taken in early life; the other represents her as wearing the sombre
dress she preferred in her last years.]

[Footnote 224: Vie politique de Marg. d' Angouleme, by Leroux de Lincy,
prefixed to the Heptameron (Ed. of the Soc. des bibliophiles), i. p.
lxiv.]

[Footnote 225: "La serenissima regina di Navarra ... e donna di molto
valore, e spirito grande, e che intervienne in tutti