ch others as whom, for the reverence of him
and for his sake, desired also to be buried with us, that the state
of our church by their helpe strengthened, may be the stronger, and
endure the firmer.' With whose so humble a request, and abundant
teares, the victorious and worthy Duke moved, answered:

"'Your King (said he) unmindfull of his faith, although he have for
the present endured the worthy punishment of his fault, yet hath he
not therefore deserved to want the honour of a sepulchre or to lie
unburied: were it but that he died a King, howsoever he came by the
kingdom, my purpose is, for the reverence of him, and for the
health of them who, having left their wives and possessions, have
here in my quarrel lost their lives, to build here a church and a
monastery with an hundred monkes in it, to pray for them for ever,
and in the same church to bury your King above the rest, with all
honour unto so great a prince, and for his sake to endow the same
with great revenewes.'

"With which his courteous speech and promises, the two religious
fathers, comforted and encouraged, again replied:

"'Not so, noble Duke, but grant this thy servants' most humble
request, that we may, for God, by thy leave, receive the dead body
of our founder, and to bury it in the place which himself in his
lifetime appointed, that wee, cheered with the presence of his
body, may thereof take comfort, and that his tombe may be unto our
successors a perpetual monument of his remembrance.'

"The Duke, as he was of disposition gracious, and inclined to
mercy, forthwith granted their desires, whereupon they drew out
stores of gold to present him in way of gratulation, which he not
only utterly refused, but also offered them plenty to supply
whatsoever should be needfull for the pompe of his funerall, as
also for their costs in travaile to and fro, giving strait
commandments that none of his souldiers should persume to molest
them in this businesse or in their returne. Then went they in haste
to the quarry of the dead, but by no meanes could find the body of
the King; for the countenances of all men greatly alter by death,
but being maimed and imbrued with bloud, they are not known to be
the men they were. As for his other regall ornaments which might
have shewed him for th