The truth
is, that Margaret not only favoured the marriage, but threatened to have
Jane whipped if she persisted in her refusal. Moreover, the little bride
having declared to Francis I. that she protested against the alliance,
Margaret wrote to her brother as follows:--
"My Lord, in my extreme desolation, I have only one single comfort, it
is that of knowing with certainty that neither the King of Navarre nor
myself have ever had any other wish or intention than that of obeying
you, not only as regards a marriage, but in whatever you might order.
But now, my lord, having heard that my daughter, neither recognising the
great honour you do her in deigning to visit her, nor the obedience that
she owes you, nor that a girl should have no will of her own, has spoken
to you so madly as to say to you that she begged of you she might not be
married to M. de Cleves, I do not know, my lord, either what I ought to
think of it, or what I ought to say to you about it, for I am grieved to
the heart, and have neither relative nor friend in the world from whom
I can seek advice or consolation.
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