Charles le mauvais. Charles II. of Navarre (1332–1387).
He is gone to the bad. Has become a ruined man, or a depraved character. He has gone amongst bad people, in bad ways, or to bad circumstances.
To the bad. On the wrong side of the account; in arrears.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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