[1] The English host perceiuing the Frenchmen to withdraw into the towne, drew togither, and stood in order of battell for the space of two houres, and then returned to their lodgings. The next day they remoo|ued to Maillerois le vicount neere vnto Sens, and there they remained two daies, and after drew into Gastinois, and so into Beause. They were coasted all the waie by a great power of men of war, as ma|ny or more in number as they were themselues. But the French king being a politike prince, wiselie con|sidered what losses the realme of France had sustei|ned afore time, by giuing battell to the Englishmen, and therefore was fullie resolued, that in no wise he would giue licence to his people to fight with the earle of Buckingham;The pol [...] [...] the French king. but thought better (as he had learned by good experience) to keepe his townes close against his enimies, and so in the end to wearie them, than by giuing battell to put things in hazard, where|as he knew they could not take from him his coun|tries by this kind of warre, though they sore in dama|ged the same for a time.