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CHAPTER V.
(1524–1525).
SEQUELS.
Hélas, La Palice est mort,
Il est mort devant Pavie;
Hélas, s'il n'estoit pas mort
Il seroit encore en vie.
Quand le roi partit de France
À la malheur il partit,
Il en partit le dimanche
Et le Lundi il fust pris.
Chanson de Pavie.
Francis was not satisfied that he had preserved his kingdom, and secured his crown. A second time he determined to reconquer Milan. Against Louisa's earnest prayers he crossed the Alps again, to fight for that Milanese which her bitterness had lost him; and across the Alps with him went many a gallant gentleman who never should return. Bayard and Bonnivet and La Palice should fall upon the field; Alençon return to die of a broken spirit; Montmorency and
