From eu’ry Quarter they their course must plye, As’t pleas’d the King them to th’assault to call: Now on the Duke of Yorke the charge doth lye: To Kent and Cornwall then the turne doth fall: Then Huntingdon vp to the walls they crye: Then Suffolke, and then Excester; which all In their meane Souldiers habits vs’d to goe, Taking such part as those that own’d them doe. [Stanza 104] The men of Harflew rough excursions make, Vpon the English watchfull in their Tent, Whose courages they to their cost awake, With many a wound that often back them sent, So proud a Sally that durst vndertake, And in the Chase pell mell amongst them went, For on the way such ground of them they win, That some French are shut out, some English in. [Stanza 105] Nor idely sit our Men at Armes the while, Foure thousand Horse that eu’ry day goe out; And of the Field are Masters many a mile, By putting the Rebellious French to rout; No Peasants them with promises beguile: Another bus’nesse they were come about; For him they take, his Ransome must redeeme, Onely French Crownes, the English men esteeme. [Stanza 106] Whilst English Henry lastly meanes to trye: By three vast Mynes, the walls to ouerthrowe. The French men their approches that espye, By Countermynes doe meete with them belowe, And as opposed in the Workes they lye: Vp the Besieged the Besiegers blowe, That stifled quite, with powder as with dust, Longer to walls they found it vaine to trust. [Stanza 107] Till Gaucourt then, and Tuttivile that were The Townes Commanders, (with much perill) finde The Resolution that the English beare; As how their owne to yeelding were enclinde, Summon to parly, off’ring frankly there; If that ayde came not by a day assignde, To giue the Towne vp, might their liues stand free: As for their goods, at Henries will to be. [Stanza 108] And hauing wonne their conduct to the King, Those hardy Chiefes on whom the charge had layne: Thither those well-fed Burgesses doe bring, What they had off’red strongly to maintaine In such a case, although a dang’rous thing, Yet they so long vpon their knees remaine: That fiue dayes respight from his Grant they haue, Which was the most, they (for their liues) durst craue. [Stanza 109] The time perfixed comming to expire, And their reliefe ingloriously delay’d: Nothing within their sight but sword, and fire; And bloody Ensignes eu’ry where display’d: The English still within themselues entire, When all these things they seriously had way’d, To Henries mercy found that they must trust, For they perceiu’d their owne to be iniust. [Stanza 110]