To conclude, their carelessness and lack of foresight was such that they never had a _Corps du Gard_ [Block House] to supply and relieve their Trenches; but only one in the Market Place of the town, which was a good quarter of a mile from their fortifications: and that also was of Almains [_Germans commanded by that double-dyed traitor CORNELIS VAN EINDEN, or VAN ENDE_]; who, when they spied the Spaniards, did gently kneel down, letting their pikes fall, and crying, _O liebe Spaniarden! O liebe Spaniarden!_ ["O dear Spaniards!" _That is, VAN EINDEN traitorously joined with the invading Spaniards._] * * * * * Now I have set down the order of their entry, approach, charge, and assault, together with their proceeding in victory; and that by credible report, both of the Spaniards themselves and of others who served in their company: let me also say a little of that which I saw executed. * * * * * I was lodged in the English House, _ut supra_: and had not gone abroad that morning by reason of weighty business which I had in hand the same day. At dinner time [_which was then about 11 a.m._], the Merchantmen of my country, which came out of the town and dined in my chamber, told me, That a hot scarmouch [_skirmish_] was begun in the Castle Yard, and that the fury thereof still increased. About the midst of dinner, news came, That the shot was so thick, as neither ground, houses, nor people could be discerned for the smoke thereof: and before dinner were fully ended, That the Spaniards were like[ly] to win the Trenches. Whereat I stept from the table, and went hastily up into a high tower of the said English House: from whence I might discover fire in four or five places of the town towards the Castle Yard; and thereby I was well assured that the Spaniards indeed were entered within the Trenches. So that I came down, and took my cloak and sword, to see the certainty thereof: and as I passed towards the Bourse [_Exchange_] I met many; but I overtook none. And those which I met were no townsmen, but soldiers: nether walked they as men which use traffic, but ran as men which are in fear. Whereat, being somewhat grieved, and seeing the townsmen stand every man before his door with such weapons as they had; I demanded of one of them, What it meant? Who answered me in these words, _Helas, Monsieur, il n'y a point d'ordre; et voilà la ruine de cette ville!_ [Alas, Sir, there is no order; and behold the ruin of this town!] _Ayez courage, mon ami!_ [Have courage, my friend!], quoth I; and so went onwards yet towards the Bourse: meeting all the way more and more [of those] which mended their pace.