[1] After this their dolorous iournie & pitifull slaugh|ter, diuerse clearks of Paris made manie a lamen|table verse, complaining that the king reigned by will, and that councellors were parciall, affirming that the noble men fled against nature, and that the commons were destroied by their prodigalitie, de|claring also that the cleargie were dumbe, and durst not saie the truth, and that the humble commons du|lie obeied, & yet euer suffered punishment, for which cause by diuine persecution the lesse number vanqui|shed the greater: wherefore they concluded, that all things went out of order, and yet was there no man that studied to bring the vnrulie to frame. It was no maruell though this battell was lamentable to the French nation, for in it were taken and slaine the flower of all the nobilitie of France.