Don John of Austria, or Passages from the history of the sixteenth century, MDXLVIIMDLXXVII . ay him some trick which would place His Majesty infresh difficulties, or that he might be besieged by the rebels, it wasnecessary to provide some place of retreat in prospect of suchevents. From Gravelines or Cambray he could retire only toParis, where his arrival would of course soon be known, and wherehe could expect no safety in the transaction of the Kings business,the French Government itself not being safe there. Under thesecircumstances they had agreed that Luxemburg was the town towhich he had
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Don John of Austria, or Passages from the history of the sixteenth century, MDXLVIIMDLXXVII . ay him some trick which would place His Majesty infresh difficulties, or that he might be besieged by the rebels, it wasnecessary to provide some place of retreat in prospect of suchevents. From Gravelines or Cambray he could retire only toParis, where his arrival would of course soon be known, and wherehe could expect no safety in the transaction of the Kings business, the French Government itself not being safe there. Under thesecircumstances they had agreed that Luxemburg was the town towhich he had better go. He again concludes his letter by urgingthe King to enable him to make a good commencement of hislabours in the Netherlands, and of his encounter with so manydifficulties, by sending him money and Escovedo. CHAP. V. HIS ARRIVAL IN THE NETHERLANDS. 187 This letter was dated on the 31st of October at six oclockin the morning, and on that same day the ambassador Zunigaannounced to the King Don Johns departure for Metz. Theexpression used by Don John that he had been seen coming to. this house, seems to imply that he was writing under Zunigasroof, and it is therefore most probable that he had also slept there.The story, as told by his biographer Vanderhammen, is that healighted in an inn of the meaner kind {se apeh en un meson) andvisited the ambassador at nightfall.^ Brant6me further relatesthat there being that night a ball at the Louvre, Don John went Vanderhammen : Don Juan de Austria, f. 292. i88 DON JOHN OF AUSTRIA. chap. v. thither in disguise, and saw the Court and great personages withwhom he was so soon to enter into political relations or colli-sion. Queen Margaret of Navarre was there in all her beauty, and she, it is said, made a deep impression on his susceptibleheart. That Don John should have attended a royal ball, where, ofcourse, there must have been many persons present to whom hehad been known in Spain or Italy, is not wholly impossible, ordirectly con