text:  Still as in the matter of the cow-hunt his highness had the malice to persist! And next day instead of allowing me to attend him in his barging with the royal Cleopatra of this confounded Cydnus of Brabant I was dispatched into all quarters of Namur to seek out a pretty child with silken hair and laughing eyes whom some silly grandam had snatched out of its nursery to parade at a royal fete