Works (Volume 4) (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: which Provence would be the chief part. King Henry VIII. gave him one hundred thoufand crowns per month, for the expences of this year's war. He had lately taken Toulon, and was now befieging Marfeilles. ISZ4 Francis I. had doubtlefs great reafon to repent of what he had done; but affairs were not as yet defperate; he had ftill a flourifhing army on foot, with which he haftened to the relief of Marfeilles, and having driven the enemy out of Provence, he fell again upon the dutchy of Milan. The conftable then returned back to Germany, to raife frefh troops; and for fome time during this interval Francis I. thought himfelf mafter of Italy. CHAP. CHI. Francis I. taken prifoner. The taking of Rome. Solyman repulfed. Principalities conferred. Enquiry whether Charies V. aimed at univerfal Monarchy. Solyman .proclaimed King of Persia in Babylon. WE now come to one of the moft ftriking examples of thofe turns of fortune, which are in fact no other than the neceflary concatenation of all events in the world. While Charles V. on the one fide, was employed in Spain in regulating the ranks of his fubjects, and forming the etiquette; on the other, Francis I. already become famous throughout Europe by his victory at Marignan, and as . - .. courageouscourageous as the chevalier Bayard, accompanied by his heroic nobles, and at the head of a fine army, was in the midlt of Milan. Pope Clement VII. who, not without good reafon, ftood in fear of the emperor, openly declared for the king of France; and John de Medicis, one of the greateft generals of that age, fought for him at the head of a chofen body of veteran troops, and yet he was defeated at Pavia; and Feb 24. ntw'thftanding ne performed ails -L- of valour which were alone fufficient ' ) to immortalize his name, was made a prifone...