Queen four pieces of camlet

Moreover I sent to my lady the queen four pieces of camlet. The knight who presented them to her carried them wrapped up in a white cloth. When the queen saw him enter the chamber where she was, she knelt before him, and he knelt before her; and the queen said: “ Rise up, sir knight; you ought not to kneel, who are the bearer of relics.” Rut the knight said: “ Lady, these are not relics; these are pieces of camlet 1hat my lord sends you.” When the queen heard this, and her ladies, they began to laugh; and the queen said to my knight: “Tell your lord that I wish him an evil day, since he has caused me to kneel to his camlet.”

While the king was at Sayette they brought him a stone that broke in flakes, the most marvellous stone in the world; \ and when you scaled off one of the flakes, you found, between the two stones, the form of a sea-fish. The fish was of stone; but it wanted nothing in form, eyes, bones, nor colour, nor anything else, to make it otherwise than if it were alive. The king gave me one of these stones, and I found therein a trench, brown of colour, and of such fashion as a trench ought to be.

THE KING HEARS OF THE DEATH OF HIS MOTHER HARSH NESS OF THE QUEEN BLANCHE TOWARDS THE QUEEN MARGARET

To Sayette came news to the king that his mother was dead. He made such lamentation that, for two days, no one could speak to him. After that he sent one of the varlets of his chamber to summon me. When I came before him in his chamber, where he was alone, and he saw me, he stretched out his arms, and said: “Ah, seneschal, I have lost my mother! ” “ Sire,” said I, “ I do not marvel at that, since she had to die; but I do marvel that you, who are a wise man, should have made such great mourning; for you know what the sage says: that whatever grief a man may have in his heart, none should appear on his countenance, because he who shows his grief causes his enemies to rejoice and afflicts his friends.” He caused many fine services to be held for the queen overseas; and afterwards sent to France a chest full of letters to the churches, asking them to pray for her.