[1] [2] King Richard (as the fame went) might haue es|caped and gotten safegard by fléeing. For when they,How king Richard might haue escaped. which were next about his person, saw and perceiued at the first ioining of the battell the souldiers faint|lie and nothing couragiouslie to set on their enimies; and not onlie that, but also that some withdrew them|selues priuilie out of the prease and departed; they be|gan to suspect fraud and to smell treason; and not one|lie exhorted, but determinatlie aduised him to saue himselfe by flight. And when the losse of the battell was imminent and apparant, they brought to him a [page 760] swift and a light horsse, to conueie him awaie. He which was not ignorant of the grudge and ill will that the common people bare toward him, casting awaie all hope of fortunate successe and happie chance to come, answered (as men saie) that on that daie he would make an end of all battels, or else there finish his life. Such a great audacitie and such a stomach reigned in his bodie.