It was in vain that Edward moved slowly for a week along the French border.

Philip's position was too strongly guarded by marshes and entrenchments to be attacked, and at last the allies would stay no longer.

At the news that the French king had withdrawn to the south the whole army in turn fell back upon Brussels.
[Sidenote: England and the Papacy] The failure of the campaign dispelled the hopes which Edward had drawn from his alliance with the Empire.

With the exhaustion of his subsidies the princes of the Low Countries became inactive.

The Duke of Brabant became cooler in his friendship.