[1] [2] The Flemings were not willing to serue, for nei|ther had they any trust in their capteine the said erle of Richmond, neither would they willinglie haue passed out of their owne confines, but onlie to defend the same from the inuasion of their enimies: yet through much persuasion, forward they went, diui|ded into sundrie battels contrarie to their manner. The enimies perceiuing some aduantage,The French|men set vpon ye Flemings. issued forth vpon them, and assailed them verie stoutlie, insomuch that the earle of Arminacke setting vpon them of Ypres, ouerthrew them, and chased them vnto a towne called Arques, which they had a little before set on fire and burned. An other companie of French|men, skirmishing with them of Franks, Furnes, and Bergis, put them also to the worse. Contrarilie, those Frenchmen that encountered with the lord Robert Dartois, and them of Bruges whome he led,The variable fortune of fights. susteined great losse, and were beaten backe into the citie:Additions to Adam Meri|muth. the duke of Burgoine himselfe being in no small danger for a time, so sharpe the bickering was betwixt them, and the euent so variable. Wherefore it is notablie and fitlie said in this behalfe, that

—incerti fallax fiducia Martis.Sil. Ital. lib. 6.