the registered promise: “It is not the pleasure of my very redoubted lord, that Messire Philippe Pot undertakes, in his company, the holy votive journey with his arm bare; but he desires that he shall travel with him well and sufficiently armed, as beseems.” As regards the vow of the duke himself, to fight the Grand Turk with his own hand, it provokes general emotion. Among the vows there are conditional ones, betraying the intention of escaping, in case of danger, by a pretext. There are those resembling