For superstition can sometimes restrain the rage of men, which neither justice nor humanity is able to control.
* Rymer, vol.vi.

p.161.Walsing.p.

174.
** Walsing.p.

175.
While the war was carried on in this ruinous manner, the negotiations for peace were never interrupted: but as the king still insisted on the full execution of the treaty which he had made with his prisoner at London, and which was strenuously rejected by the dauphin, there appeared no likelihood of an accommodation.

The earl, now duke of Lancaster, (for this, title was introduced into England during the present reign,) endeavored to soften the rigor of these terms, and to finish the war on more equal and reasonable conditions.