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SIR JOHN FROISSART
Chronicles of England, France, Spain and the adjoining countries
from the latter part of the reign of Edward II to the coronation of Henry IV. Vol.6
page 311
could not help it. The Gafcons and English carried their prifoners with them, and made much of them ; but it not long before they ranfbfned themfelves.
: • CHAP.'LIX, • ; •
'THE ENQLISH AND GHENTMEN MAKE A SHARP • ATTACK QN YPRES; BUT, LEARNING THAT THE KINO OF FRANCE HAD MARGHËD AN
• ARMY INÏO ARTOIS, THEY INSTANTLY BREAK
VP THE SIEGE. l% [ , i -
IT always • happens* ' that in war there are . gains and lofles : t very . extraordinary are the ' chances, as thofe kno,w. well ' who .foiled the _ profeftion. The fiege of Ypres was pusjipd, cm with unwearied force ; and it was fully the in? tention of the bifhop, of: Norwich, the Egglifl* 2nd Peter du Bois,, to conquer Ypres by ftorxn or otherwife, as the: vigour of tjti^r att§pk«
• fliewedr '
. Agapng the many affaults, there was, one much feycrer • than the reft ; for it lafted from morning upti| almoft night. Many valiant $Cr tions were done. by feverai on both fides, ptd the Englifh and Flemings made Yaft exertions to conquer it. The befieged created that; day four knights, John de St. Pi, nephew to the go-vernor, François Belle, George Belle, and John
• Belle, who fhewed thpmfelves good knights in
this
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