power is France. Make Louis thy friend and ally, and them givest peace to thy life and thy lineage?make Louis thy foe, and count oil plots, and stratagems, and treason?uneasy days and sleepless nights. Already thou hast lost one occasion to secure that wiliest and most restless of princes, in rejecting the hand of the Princess Bona. Happily, this loss can now be retrieved. But alliance with Burgundy is war with France?war more deadly because Louis is a mail who declares it not?a war carried on by intrigue and bribe, by spies and minions, tffl some disaffection ripens the hour when yomi- Edward of Lancaster shall land on thy coasts, with the Oriflamme and the Hed Rose, ? with French soldiers and English malcontents. Wouldst thou look to Burgundy for help? ? Burgundy will have enough to guard its own frontiers from the gripe of Louis the Sleepless. Edward, my king, my pupil in arms?Edward, my loved, my honoured liege, forgive iiichard cvile his bluntuess, and let not his faults stand in bar of his counsels.
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