Whereunto Mr. Bacon answered:
"'It was not the company you carried with you but the assistance
you hoped for in the City which you trusted unto. The Duke of Guise
thrust himself into the streets of Paris on the day of the
Barricades in his doublet and hose, attended only with eight
gentlemen, and found that help in the city which (thanks be to God)
you failed of here. And what followed? The King was forced to put
himself into a pilgrim's weeds, and in that disguise to steal away
to scape their fury. Even such was my Lord's confidence too, and
his pretence the same--an all-hail and a kiss to the City. But the
end was treason, as hath been sufficiently proved. But when he had
once delivered and engaged himself so far into that which the
shallowness of his conceit could not accomplish as he expected, the
Queen for her defence taking arms against him, he was glad to yield
himself; and thinking to colour his practices, turned his pretexts,
and alleged the occasion thereof to proceed from a private
quarrel.
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