"Ah! so these lachrymose Jules Favres, these fat Picards, these hungry Jules Ferrys, said amongst themselves, 'We will take Paris, we will tear it up, and its soil shall be divided after the victory between the wives of the sergents de ville!'

This name, we should imagine, was derived from the two German words god ael, which mean "good beer," and was of a stronger description than the ordinary cervoise; this idea is proved by the Picards and Flemish people calling it "double beer."

Its strength, they said, was a hundred and forty large vessels, "without counting the smaller," having on board thirty-five thousand men, Normans, Picards, Italians, sailors and soldiers of all countries, under the command of two French leaders, Hugh Quiret, titular admiral, and Nicholas Bchuchet, King Philip's treasurer, and of a famous Genoese buccaneer, named Barbavera.

"If the king leaves Paris," the duke wrote to Bernard de Mendoza, Philip II.'s ambassador in France, "I will make him think about returning thither before he has gone a day's march towards the Picards." Philip II.

Barons, Vous qui m'avez suivi jusqu'à cette montagne, Normands, Lorrains, marquis des marches d'Allemagne, Poitevins, Bourguignons, gens du pays Pisan, Bretons, Picards, Flamands, Français, allez-vous-en! Guerriers, allez-vous-en d'auprès de ma personne, Des camps où l'on entend mon noir clairon qui sonne Rentrez dans vos logis, allez-vous-en chez vous, Allez-vous-en d'ici, car je vous chasse tous!