Undoubtedly, though, the king was much surprised at his son's action. He had rather expected him to take refuge somewhere but he never thought that the Duke of Burgundy would be his protector—a strange choice to his mind. "My cousin of Burgundy nourishes a fox who will eat his chickens" is reported as another comment of this impartial father.[24] Like many a phrase, possibly the fruit of later harvests, this is an excellent epitome of the situation.
[Footnote 1:] [I].,ch. xxxi.]
[Footnote 2:] [II].,204.]
[Footnote 3:] [Barante], vi.,50.]
[Footnote 4:] [Some] of the canons wrote their reasons after their recorded vote: "Because Duke Philip had made the candidate member of his council of Holland, Zealand, and Friesland, in which office Gijsbrecht had acquitted himself well." "Because all the Sticht nobles were his relations," etc.—(Wagenaar, Vaderlandsche Historie, iv., 50.)]
[Footnote 5:] [Du] Clercq, ii., 210.]
[Footnote 6:] [Mémoires], i., ch. xxxiii.]