%â ôr ôût of breath, that they could not lon-ger fupport the fight, they feated themfelves Hear a large ditch full of water in the middle of the plain, when having taken off their helmets, they refrefhed themfelves : this done, they re-placed their helmets and returned to the combat. 1 do not believe there ever was fo well fought or fo fevtre a battle, as this of Marteras in Bigorre, fince the famous combat of thirty Englifh againft thirty French knights in Britany.* * They fought hand to hand, and Ernauton de Sainte Colombe, an excellent man at arms* was on the point of being killed Ty a fquire of the country called Guillonet de Salenges, who had pu (lied him fo hard that he was quite out of breath, when I will tell you what happened : Ernauton de Sainte Colombe had a fervant who was a fpectator of ihe battle, neither attacking nor attacked by any one; but, feeing his maf-ter thus diftrefled, he ran to him, and, wrefting the battle-axe from his hands, faid,/ Ernauton, go and sit down : recover yourfelf : you cannot longer continue the battle.' c With this battle-axe he advanced upon the fquire, and gave him fuch a blow on the helmet as made him ftagger and almoft fall down. Guil-lonet, fmarting from the blow, was very wroth, and made for the fervant to ftrike him with his * This celebrated combat took place between thirty Eng-lifh under the command of Bembro (who feems inconfider-ately to have engaged in it) and thirty French under Beau-manoir, at the oak half way between Ploërmel and JoTelia in the year Ï351.—See note in the* fécond volume, page 237 M 4 axe m