oot in the
chamber, she saluted him with one of the songs of her native country.
When the child was shown to him, Henry d'Albret took him joyfully in
his arms, and remembering the sneer of the Spaniards, he exclaimed,
as if with a foresight of what he would become, 'My sheep has borne
me a lion!' Then giving his will to his daughter, he continued;
'There, my child, that is for thee, but this is for me,'--and
carrying the boy, wrapped in a fold of his dressing gown, into his
own chamber, he rubbed his lips with a piece of garlic, and gave him
from his own golden cup some drops of wine.

"Whether the King of Navarre did or did not imagine, as has been
asserted, that such unusual treatment of a newborn infant would
ensure to his grandson a hardy and a vigorous constitution, it
certainly indicated the course of education which he wished to be
pursued; and nothing was left undone that could strengthen the
corporeal frame of the young prince, and prepare him for the
hardships and exertions of a military career. Though a strong and
powerful child, some difficulty was at first found in rearing him;
and, perhaps, too high a degree of anxiety in regard to his health,
caused the frequent change of nurses, which was of course detrimental
to the infant.

"Great rejoicings took place on the occasion of his baptism; and his
grandfather displayed all the splendour of the little court of
Navarre, which the Emperor Charles V. once declared, had received him
in his passage through France with greater magnificence than any
other court he had visited. His godfathers were Henry II. of France
and Henry d'Albret of Navarre; and the rite, which was performed
according to the usages of the Church of Rome, was administered by
the Cardinal of Armagnac, Vice-legate of Avignon.

"From the castle of Pau the prince was speedily removed to that of
Coarasse, situated nearly at the mouth of the beautiful valley of
Lourdes; and there, under the immediate superintendence of his
grandfather and a distant relation, Susannah de Bourbon, Baroness de
Miossens, commenced that hardy education which lasted till after the
death of the King of Navarre. That monarch, we are told by a
contemporary author, 'reproached his daughter and son-in-law with
having lost several of their children by