It was now so late that they could not see one another; and the Swiss were, for this evening, forced to retire on the one side, and the French on the other.

They lodged as they could; but well I trow that none did rest at ease.

The King of France put as good a face on matters as the least of all his soldiers did, for he remained all night a-horseback like the rest (according to other accounts he had a little sleep, lying on a gun-carriage).
[Illustration: All Night a-horseback----19] On the morrow at daybreak the Swiss were for beginning again, and they came straight towards the French artillery, from which they had a good peppering.

Howbeit, never did men fight better, and the affair lasted three or four good hours.

At last they were broken and beaten, and there were left on the field ten or twelve thousand of them.