The first part of the act went off smoothly. One of the brothers responded to the phantom punch and stumbled off the stage onto the floor.

Even in this almost peachless year, the trees were well fruited, many of them very well.

[T]hat great Aſſembly des notables called by K. Francis the Firſt, to give their Judgment of the Articles of Peace lately made with the Emperour Charles V. at Madrid, their ſenſe was, that Burgundy which by thoſe Articles was to be delivered up, was an inſeparable Member of the Crown, of which he was but the uſufructuary, and ſo he could not diſpoſe of the one any more than of the other; […]

In the decade ahead, the story must be one of increasingly frictionless travel.