[1] Certeine Frenchmen and Almaines perforce o|pened the archers of the princes battell,The princ [...] battell p [...]|sed. and came to fight with the men of armes hand to hand. Then the second battell of the Englishmen came to succor the princes battell, and not before it was time, for they of that battell had as then inough to doo, in somuch that some which were about him, as the earle of Northampton, and others sent to the king,The earle of Northamp [...] sendeth to the king. where he stood aloft on a windmill hill, requiring him to ad|uance forward, and come to their aid, they being as then sore laid to of their enimies. The king herevp|on demanded if his sonne were slaine, hurt, or felled to the earth? No (said the knight that brought the message) but he is sore matched.The king [...] answer.

Well (said the king) returne to him and them that sent you, and saie to them that they send no more to me for any aduenture that falleth, so long as my son is aliue, for I will that this iournie be his, with the honor thereof. With this answer the knight returned, which greatlie incoura|ged them to doo their best to win the spurs, being half abashed in that they had so sent to the king for aid.

At length when it drew toward euening, and that the Frenchmen were beaten downe and slaine on ech handThe Fre [...] king depar|teth out of the field. king Philip as it were by constreint departed out of the field, not hauing as then past three score per|sons about him, of whome the lord Iohn of Heinault was one, by whose persuasion he cheefelie consented to ride his waie for his owne safegard, when he saw the losse was such as on that daie it could not be re|couered.