AD. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1522. 



The enemies on the other side night and day without 

 rest (for the great number of labourers that they had 

 hourely and newly ready) hewed and undermined the 

 sayd wall. 



And the 20 day of October they put fire in the 

 undermines, weening to have cast downe the wall, but 

 they could not : then they would have pulled it downe 

 with great ropes and ancres, but the artillery of the 

 bulwarke of Auvergne brake their ropes, and sent them 

 away lightly. 



At the last they made a mine under the sayd wall and 

 breach : and the 26 day of the same moneth they did 

 put fire to the same mine, weening to have overthrowen 

 the wall, which it did not, but raised it, and made it to 

 fall almost straight upright, which was more disadvantage 

 to the enemies then profit. Then they shot artillery at 

 it, which in fewe dayes beat it downe, and they had 

 opening and way to come into the Towne. Neverthe- 

 lesse it was not necessary for them as then to enter : for 

 the artillery of our repaires beat them in the forepart, and 

 the artillery lying at the two milles at the posterne of 

 Quosquino, and in that of England, whereas was a 

 basiliske that beat right upon the breach with other 

 pieces : and therefore the enemies sought other meanes, 

 and beganne to raise the earth betweene our two walles, 

 drawing toward the bulwarke of England on the one side, 

 and toward Auvergne on the other side, and would have 

 [II. i. 87.] cut the wall further then our traverses were for to come 

 in unbeaten of our artillery. Then were the repaires 

 inlarged and made greater with the wall that was cut, 

 of the height of twelve, & 16 foot in bredth : and so 

 the enemies might goe no further forward, but shot great 

 artillery against our repaires, for to breake and cast them 

 downe, and also they made trenches for to come right 

 to the breach, and unto the repaires : and certeinly we 

 looked day by day, and houre by houre for to have some 

 assault. The reverend lord great master, the which, as 

 it is sayd, had left the bulwarke of England the day that 



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