3r4 VEGETABLE SUBSTANCES. 



we have more need of rest.' The words came to the 

 Count d'Alencon, who said, ' A man is well at ease 

 to be charged with such a sort of rascals, to be faint 

 and fail now at most need.'" A storm then ensues, 

 which, and its passing away, are described in 

 Froissart's own sinsjular style. He then continues 

 thus : — " WTien the Genoese were assembled tog'ether, 

 and began to approach, they made a great leap and 

 cry to abash the Englishmen ; but they stood still, 

 and stirred not for all that. Then the Genoese again 

 the second time made anotlier leap and a fell cry, 

 and stepped forward a little ; and the Englishmen 

 removed not one foot. Thirdly, again they leapt 

 and cried, and went forth till they came within shot. 

 Then they shot fiercely with their cross-bows. Then 

 the English archers stept forth one pace, and let fly 

 their arrows so wholly, and so thick, that it seemed 

 snow. When the Genoese felt the arrows piercing 

 through heads, arms, and breasts, many of them 

 cast down their cross-bows, and did cut their strings, 

 and returned discomfited. When the French king 

 saw them fly away, he said, ' Slay these rascals, 

 for they shall lett and trouble u.s without reason,' 

 Then ye should have seen the men of arms dash in 

 among them, and killed a great number of them ; 

 and ever still the Englishmen shot where as they saw 

 thickest press. The sharp arrows ran into the men 

 of arms, and into their horses ; and many fell, horse 

 and men, in the midst of the Genoese ; and when 

 they were down, they could not relieve again, the 

 press was so thick that one overthrew another*." 



At Poitiers — " Then the battle began on all parts, 

 and the batdes t of the Marshals of France ap- 

 proached, and they set forth that were appointed to 

 break the array of the archers. They entered a horse- 



* Lord Berners' Froissart: Ed. 1812. Vol. i. chap. 130. 

 t Corps de bataille. 



