[1] [2] When the French vauward was thus brought to confusion, the English archers cast awaie their bowes, & tooke into their hands, axes, malls, swords,The [...] of the Fren [...] discomfited. bils, and other hand-weapons, and with the same slue the Frenchmen, vntill they came to the middle ward. Then approched the king, and so incouraged his peo|ple, that shortlie the second battell of the Frenchmen was ouerthrowne, and dispersed,Their [...] beaten. not without great slaughter of men: howbeit, diuerse were releeued by their varlets, and conueied out of the field. The Eng|lishmen were so busied in fighting, and taking of the prisoners at hand, that they followed not in chase of their enimies, nor would once breake out of their ar|raie of battell. Yet sundrie of the Frenchmen stronglie withstood the fiercenesse of the English, when they came to handie strokes, so that the fight sometime was doubtfull and perillous. Yet as part of the French horssemen set their course to haue en|tred vpon the kings battell, with the stakes ouer|throwne, they were either taken or slaine. Thus this battell continued thrée long houres.