At the very beginning of the campaign his father passed from
life into death, the tidings whereof brought him double sorrow, on the
one part for the loss of his father, and on the other for the difficulty
he should have on his return in seeing his sweetheart as often as he had
hoped.
2 Charles V. entered Provence by way of Piedmont in the
summer of 1536, and invested Marseilles. A scarcity of
supplies and much sickness among his troops compelled him,
however, to raise the siege.--M.
As time went on, the first of these griefs was forgotten and the other
increased. Since death is a natural thing, and for the most part
befalls the father before the children, the sadness it causes gradually
disappears; but love, instead of bringing us death, brings us life
through the procreation of children, in whom we have immortality, and
this it is which chiefly causes our desires to increase.
James, therefore, when he had returned to Paris, thought or cared for
nothing save how he might renew his frequent visits to the mercer's
house, and so, under cloak of pure friendship for him, traffic in his
dearest wares.
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