"Owing to the excellent spices which had preserved it from decay," as
upon the day of burial. Thrown upon the marble floor of the church, it
lay several days exposed to the execrations of the multitude. The Duke
had committed a crime against his father, in consequence of which the
province which had been ruled by native races, had passed under the
dominion of Charles the Bold. Weary of waiting for the old Duke's
inheritance, he had risen against him in open rebellion. Dragging him
from his bed at midnight in the depth of winter, he had compelled the old
man, with no covering but his night gear, to walk with naked feet twenty-
five miles over ice and snow from Grave to Buren, while he himself
performed the same journey in his company on horseback. He had then
thrown him into a dungeon beneath the tower of Buren castle, and kept him
a close prisoner for six months.

[Memoires de Philippe de Comines (Loud. et Paris, 1747), liv. iv.
194-196. In the Royal Gallery at Berlin is a startling picture by
Rembrandt, in which the old Duke is represented looking out of the
bars of his dungeon at his son, who is threatening him with uplifted
hand and savage face. No subject could be imagined better adapted
to the gloomy and sarcastic genius of that painter.]

At last, the Duke of Burgundy summoned the two before his council, and
proposed that Adolphus should allow his father 6000 florins annually,
with the title of Duke till his death. "He told us," said Comines, "that
he would sooner throw the old man head-foremost down a well and jump in
himself afterwards. His father had been Duke forty-four years, and it
was time for him to retire." Adolphus being thus intractable, had been
kept in prison till after the death of Charles the Bold. To the
memorable insurrection of Ghent, in the time of the Lady Mary, he owed
his liberty. The insurgent citizens took him from prison, and caused him