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The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part C.

CHAPTER XXVII
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de Chev.

Bayard, chap.57.Memoires de Bellai.
** Memoires de Bellai, liv.i.Polyd.Virg.liv.

xxvii.
Holingshed, p.822.

Herbert.
After so considerable an advantage, the king, who was at the head of a complete army of above fifty thousand men, might have made incursions to the gates of Paris, and spread confusion and desolation every where.

It gave Lewis great joy when he heard that the English, instead of pushing their victory, and attacking the dismayed troops of France, returned to the siege of so inconsiderable a place as Terouane.


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