St. George, fêr Guienne ! 9 and fir John Chandos faid to the prince ; € Sir, fir, now pufii forward, for the days is ours : God will this day put it in your hand. Let us make for our adveffary the king of France ; for where he is will lie the main ftrefs of the bufinefs : I well know that his valour will not let him fly; and he will remain with us, if it pleafe God and St. George: but he mull be well fought with ; and you have before faid, that you would Ihew yourfelf this day a good knight/ The prince replied ; € John, get forward ; you Jhall not fee me % urn my back this day, but I will always be among the foremofl/ He then faid to fir Walter Wood-land, his banner-bearer,. Banner advance, in the name of God and St. George/ ' The kni&ht obeyed the commands of the prince. In that part, the battle was very hot, and greatly crowded : many a one was unhorfed : and you muft know, that when* ever any one fell, he could not get up again, unlefs he were quickly and well aflifted.. ' As the prince was thus'advancing upon his ene-mies, followed by his divifion, and upon the point of charging them, he perceived the lord Robert de Duras lying dead near a fmall bulh on his right hand, with his banner befide him, and ten or twelve of his people ; upon which he ordered two of his fquires and three archers to place the body upon a Ihield, carry it to Poitiers, and prefent it from him to the cardinal of Perigord, and fay, that '1 falute bin* by thftt token/ This was done; for he bad been kformed how the fuite of the cardinal had re- . . " • mained 324