Now, the city of Tours having been captured, after the conference, going from Azai to his father in tears along the way, he [Geoffrey] began to ask and ask urgently that at tomorrow’s conference, where he would have to place himself entirely under the mercy of the king of the Franks in all things, he should be allowed not to be present. For he said that he could endure in no way to see his lord and father make such a humiliating peace. And thus they left one another on that condition with great sobs and a large flow of tears. Truly peace was made the next day; when in that same place king lay in bed with a grave illness, clearly with anger and indignation at so great a humiliation proving the cause of his sickness, the chancellor, because he could not stand by the king when he was carried on a bier from Azai for piety as much as for grief, now having been established at Chinon he stuck by him inseparably; and whom he had loved in health and prosperity, he did not abandon when afflicted with ills and lying on his bed in sickness. Therefore sitting one day, with his bosom supporting the head and shoulders of his father, and a certain soldier holding his feet in his lap, he drove away flies from his father’s face with a fan; at last the king, opening his eyes, which for a long time he had kept closed in the anguish of his illness, and seeing his son, with a deep breath broke forth in these words,

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