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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.8
page 32
taking the pennon of St. George, he galloped off
with them towards the mountain of Efpinete, to meet the French. When there arrived, he • only perceived the iaughtered foragers ; for the French had returned by the road they had come; but, had they not had good guides, they would never have found it through the inclofures.
The Englifh, on their return, when within half a league of their army, faw the French re-enter the caftle of Corunna, which vexed them much : but help it they could not. The army blamed the marfhal for having fuffered the foragers to go with-out an effort of me$ at arms, when the enemy were fo near, and in fuch numbers. The con-ftable and dyke of Lancafter were fo {harp with him, he was quite afhamed : he faid, that they had been caught, to be fure, this once, though they had foraged ten times before without any inter-ruption. • * Sir Thomas/ faid the duke, ' be more cautious in future ; for fuch things may fall out in one day or hour, as may not happen again in a century.*
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