[1] [2] The Frenchmen by experience knowing the Eng|lishmen (so long as they be fresh and lustie) in maner to be inuincible,When the French be i [...]uincible. thought not good to match with them in open battell, till they were somewhat wearied with lieng and lingering abroad in the field. And therefore at the first they sought to wearie them with light skirmishes, appointing their horssemen to giue them alarmes, & some skirmishes; in the which the French|men, by reason of the English archers (which galled both men and horsses) were euer put to the worsse. But behold the mutabilitie of worldlie chances! Whiles this warre was thus set forward, Francis duke of Britaine departed this life,Francis duke [...] Britaine [...]eth. & then the cheefe rulers of Britain, falling at dissention among them|selues, tendered not the defense of their countrie, but rather minded the destruction thereof.