[236] Our honest secretary reminds me of a passage in Geoffrey of
Monmouth, who says, "At this place an _eagle spoke_ while the wall
of the town was building; and indeed I should not have failed
_transmitting the speech to posterity_ had I thought it _true_ as
the rest of the history."
[237] I have drawn up this article, for the curiosity of its subject
and its details, from the "Discours au vray de tout ce qui s'est
fait et passe pour l'entiere Negociation de l'Election du Roi de
Pologne, divises en trois livres, par Jehan Choisnin du
Chatelleraud, nagueres Secretaire de M. l'Evesque de Valence," 1574.