קי CONGRESS AT NIZZA. 287 was a present, because his master had sent him unto the emperor to bow before him, and to beg of him to go to war against the Turks, for they vexed them* ; and he went to sea, and the Lord gave him into the hand of the Ishmaelites on the seventh day of the month; and they led him unto Marseille, for there was peace between them. And they ransomed him there, so he returned unto the emperor, and went unto his own country. 984. And when the emperor heard that Paul drew nigh unto Savona, he sent thither some of his own ships to bring him unto him. And it came to pass, when he came to Villa Franca, that the rest of the ships went out to meet him, and they honored him; and the sea and the land trembled at the noise of the battering-rams, and at the high-sounding trumpets. And on the third month Paul went on shore, and removed to the high place of St. Francis, which is out of Nizza. And it came to pass, after yet other three days, that the emperor went unto him, and did obeisance and kissed his foot, and embraced him, and they asked each other of their welfaret, and communed together, and no stranger passed between them‡; and they bowed one unto his brother; and the emperor went from him in peace. * Num. xxv. 18. * + Exod. xviii. 7. Job. xv. 10. 288 CONGRESS AT NIZZA. קי 985. And the king, and his wife, and his sons, came unto the borders of Provence with much people, and with a strong hand. And he sent the Cardinal Lorenzo, and the Grand-master, to speak unto the emperor; and also the emperor sent messengers unto him; and they communed with them, and returned unto their master. And the king came to Nizza on the second day of the month of June. And Paul sent to meet him, so he came unto him. And he bowed, and kissed his foot, and Paul also bowed before him, and honored him much. And the king said unto him, "Let it not be grievous in the sight of my Lord, that my occurrences and my wars have brought thee hither, which is not according to the law. For this thing did not happen according to my heart." And Paul spake also words of peace and truth* unto his heart; and they removed to the chamber, and communed together until sunset, and bowed one to another, and separated themselves one from the othert. 986. And there came the queen Eleanora also,nd her princesses and her maidens, clothed with broidered garments, and pleasant to look upon and fatfleshed‡, and making a tinkling with their feet§. *Esther ix. 30. + Gen. xiii. 11. § Is. iii. 16. IMMERSION OF CHARLES AND ELEONORA. 289 And she went with twelve galleys unto Villa Franca, on the eleventh day of the fourth month. And they made a great bridge in the sea*; and she came with her maidens on the bridge, and her brother, the emperor, also came to meet her, and embraced her, and fell on her neck and kissed her; and they rejoiced togethert. And those who came on the bridge after them were many, and the bridge brake under them, and they fell both of them into the water and the nobles with them; but the men of the ships brought them up unto the shore, and there lacked not one of them. And she communed with her brother, the emperor, for about three hours, and bowed herself to the ground, and went out from him in peace, and returned unto Villa Nuova; for the king and his nobles resided there in those days. 987. And it came to pass, after some days, that these two kings spake one to another, and Paul also spake to their hearts at that time, and said unto them, "Turn ye from your evil ways, nation shall not lift up sword against nation, for the eyes of the rest of the uncircumcised§ are upon you. Know ye not yet, that our faith is * A kind of pier. + Gen. xxxiii. 4. 2 Kings xvii. 13; Ezek. xxxiii. 11. 290 PEACE PROCLAIMED AT NIZZA. קי destroyed?* The men of Martin Luther have bereaved me of my children; also the king of England has joined them, and they thrust away many that follow me unto this day, and no man layeth it to hearts. Also the Turk warreth against Venice this day; and of the kings of the uncircumcised there is not one with the Venetians; for the children are come to the birth, and there is not strength to bring forth||, all these things are against me¶¶." And they hardened their neck**, and refused to heart, but said they would not war against Piedmont and the rest of their royal cities for ten years, and every one should go to his place in peace. And they made a covenant between themselves on the eighteenth day of the fourth month, in the high place of Francis§§, in the presence of Paul and the nobles who were with them; and all the people were very glad; and the commandment was given publicly unto all people||| in all the cities of their kingdoms in those days. 988. And they journeyed thence, and the emperor and the pope came unto Genoa on the 'P TURKS BESIEGE NAPOLI AND MALVASIA. 291 sabbath-day, on the twenty-second day of the fourth month; and the elders of the city and its judges and its priests, and all the people of the land, went out to meet them; and the earth was rent at the voice of the rams, and their smoke went up toward heaven. And the city of Genoa rejoiced and was glad*, and both of them came into the city with gladness. And King Francis returned unto his own place. 989. In those days the rest of the king's ships returned from Turkey; and Italy had rest for some days. 990. And the Turks besieged Napoli di Romania, and Malvasia, which belongeth unto the lords of Venice, in the Morea, many days; and they came in sieget, and the lords of Venice sent soldiers thither, and put a garrison in the midst of them. And Barbarossa went out from the seas of Constantinople, and one hundred and fifty galley's with him, and one gallant ship‡. And they took spoil in the isles of the sea, which belonged unto the Venetians in the Archipelago§, whose inhabitants were Greeks; and he drave them into another land as it is this day. And the emperor *Est. ix. 15. Is. xxxiii. 21. + 2 Kings xxiv. 10. ארציפילאנו $ | Deut. xxix. 28. |