em and
threw them into confusion. He mounted his horse and pretended to fly, then
suddenly turned upon the English with such force that he threw seven down
and broke their ranks:--

"Grande fut la bataille et longuement dura:
Et le chapple (carnage) horrible est deca et dela;
La chaleur fut moult grande, chacun si tressua (sua);
De soeur et de sang la terre rosoya (rougit).
A ce bon samedi Beaumanoir si jeuna;
Grand soif eut le baron, a boire demanda;
Messire Geoffrey du Bois tantot repondu a:
'Bois ton sang, Beaumanoir, la soif te passera;
Ce jour aurons honneur, chacun si gagnera
Vaillante renommee, ja blame ne sera.'--
Beaumanoir le vaillant adonc s'evertua,
Tel deuil eut et telle ire que la soif lui passa;
Et d'un cote et d'autre le chapple commenca:
Morts furent ou blesses, gueres n'en echappa."--BRIZEUX.

Sir Robert Knollys, Sir Hugh Calverly Croquart, and others were made
prisoners, and thus ended the Battle of the Thirty; gained, however, in a
most disloyal manner, Montauban getting the aid of a horse, when all the
other combatants fought on foot.

The Breton knights returned to Josselin, their helmets decorated with
branches of the broom--

"In every basnet a bright broom flower;"

the place where the battle was fought running, according to the French
poem,

"Le long d'une genetaie qui etait verte et belle."

Josselin is celebrated for its chateau, where died, 1407, Olivier du
Clisson, the contemporary and brother of arms of Du Guesclin, whom he
succeeded in the dignity of Constable of France, which no one for some
time would accept, not thinking themselves worthy of replacing him. Both
differed widely in position and character. Du Guesclin, though of a noble
family, had not the advantage of fortune like Clisson, who had immense
wealth and landed possessions, which made him a kind of sovereign in the
duchy. He willed away a million of money. Clisson was a statesman, Du
Guesclin's sole glory was in arms. Clisson was cruel, intriguing, and
insatiable for riches; Du Guesclin was humane, loyal, and disinterested.
Both were equal in bravery and physical force: the lance of Du Guesclin
and the axe of Clisson(20) carried all before them. Clisson joined with Du
Guesclin in freeing the country from the "Great Companies," and his most
celebrated action was the defeat of the Flemings at Rosbecq. Few subjects
have been so powerful, or h