lewd fellows?" "My lord," Juvenal would answer, "hope we in God; yet a
little while and we shall see them confounded and destroyed."

Nor was Juvenal mistaken. The opposition to the yoke of the Burgundians
was daily becoming more and more earnest and general. The butchers
attempted to stein the current; but the carpenters took sides against
them, saying, "We will see which are the stronger in Paris, the hewers of
wood or the fellers of oxen." The parliament, the exchequer-chamber, and
the Hotel-de-Ville demanded peace; and the shouts of Peace! peace!
resounded in the streets. A great crowd of people assembled on the
Greve; and thither the butchers came with their company of about twelve
hundred persons, it is said. They began to speak against peace, but
could not get a hearing. "Let those who are for it go to the right,"
shouted a voice, "and those who are against it to the left!" But the
adversaries of peace durst not risk this test. The Duke of Burgundy
could not help seeing that he was declining rapidly; he was no longer
summoned to the king's council; a watch was kept upon his house; and he
determined to go away. On the 23d of August, 1413, without a word said,
even to his household, he went away to the wood of Vincennes, prevailing
on the king to go hawking with him. There was a suspicion that the duke
meant to carry off the king. Juvenal des Ursins, with a company of armed
burgesses, hurried off to Vincennes, and going straight to the king,
said, "Sir, come away to Paris; it is too hot to be out." The king
turned to go back to the city. The Duke of Burgundy was angry, saying
that the king was going a-hawking. "You would take him too far,"
rejoined Juvenal; "your people are in travelling dress, and you have
your trumpeters with you."

[Illustration: John the Fearless----51]