[1] [2] Then went the duke foorth towards Paris,The duke o [...] Clarence s [...]|meth befo [...]e Paris [...] his armie. and comming thither, lodged before it two daies and two nights, without perceiuing anie proffer of issue to be made foorth against him by his enimies, and there|fore seeing they durst not once looke vpon him, he re|turned to Pontoise, for the taking of which towne the whole countrie of France, and speciallie the Pa|risians were sore dismaied: sith now there was no fortresse able to withstand the English puissance;The [...] spoile the [...] of France. for that the Irishmen ouerran all the Isle of France, did to the Frenchmen damages innumerable (as their writers affirme) brought dailie prcies to the English armie, burst vp houses, laid beds on the backes of the kine, rid vpon them, carried yoong children before them, and sold them to the English|men for slaues. These strange dooings so feared the Frenchmen within the territorie of Paris, and the countrie about, that the sorie people fled out of the villages with all their stuffe into the citie.