ABSTRACT
A n d when the King of France and he met there was great mourning for the death of the count of Alen^on and this mourning of theirs and of the people lasted two days. And on the following day King Charles came to speak with the King of France, his nephew, and with all the Twelve Peers of France. And when they were assembled in council, King Charles rose and bewailed the great dishonour and the great damage the King of Aragon had done him and begged the King of France and the Twelve Peers for help and advice. And the help he asked was, that he begged them not to desert him in such dire necessity as he was in, knowing as they did that he was the son of a King of France and was of the same flesh and blood as they were, and that the House of France never forsakes one issued from that House ; and that thus the Lord King, his nephew, and they all were bound to him. And the advice he asked was for this great difficulty he was in, in the combat he had undertaken, and the day being so near on which he was to be at Bordeaux ;l and he begged they would give him their counsel. And so for these two reasons he begged them to enable him to reckon upon them. And upon this he ceased to speak.
