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SIR JOHN FROISSART
Chronicles of England, France, Spain and the adjoining countries
from the latter part of the reign of Edward II to the coronation of Henry IV. Vol.4
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SIR JOHN FROISSART
Chronicles of England, France, Spain and the adjoining countries
from the latter part of the reign of Edward II to the coronation of Henry IV. Vol.4
page 252
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The loid du Chin replied s c Pair fon, " ym fay Well : order out our horfes* and difplay my ban-ner/ Sir John de Bueil rejoined 5 1 Gentlemen* you ihall not go without my company : but I would advife ym to aâ more deliberately in this bufinefs % for peradventure they may be men at arms lightly ' i whop the marflials or m fiable may have lent hither to draw us out of out fortrefs* and our folly may turn out to our lofs/
The lord de Bourftcrs Cud 1 ' r If you will adopt my pfa% we wH go and fight them, and that as ipeedily as may be * for whatever toay happen, I am determined to da fo/ On laying this, he FIXED on his helmet and tightened his armour, AND then fallied forth with about one hundred and twenty; combatants. • The £nglifti werf About fouricore, part of die troop of fir Hugh Cal-vcrley, though fir Hugh himfcif had remained with the duke of Lancafter ; there were as many as fix knights and other fquircs, who had advanced to revenge the deaths of their companions*
On the French coming out at the gate they met the Englifh, who lowering their fpears, vigorowfly attacked them :• they opened thteir • ranks, when the Englifh galloped quite throf^b'^ thia-caufed fo gfeat a DUFT that they could fcareely dittin-guifh each other. The French foon formed again, and fho.uted their cry of Notfe Datae Ri-bemont ! ' Many a man wm urçhorfed on both fides. The lord da Chin fought with a kaden mace, with which he fmafhed every helmet that came
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