That Sunday all the day the cardinal travailed in riding from the one host to the other gladly to agree them:  but the French king would not agree without he might have four of the principallest of the Englishmen at his pleasure, and the prince and all the other to yield themselves simply:  howbeit there were many great offers made.  The prince offered to render into the king’s hands all that ever he had won in that voyage, towns and castles, and to quit all prisoners that he or any of his men had taken in that season, and also to swear not to be armed against the French king in seven year after; but the king and his council would none thereof:  the uttermost that he would do was, that the prince and a hundred of his knights should yield themselves into the king’s prison; otherwise he would not:  the which the prince would in no wise agree unto.

In the mean season that the cardinal rode thus between the hosts in trust to do some good, certain knights of France and of England both rode forth the same Sunday, because it was truce for that day, to coast the hosts and to behold the dealing of their enemies.  So it fortuned that the lord John Chandos rode the same day coasting the French host, and in like manner the lord of Clermont, one of the French marshals, had ridden forth and aviewed the state of the English host; and as these two knights returned towards their hosts, they met together:  each of them bare one manner of device, a blue lady embroidered in a sunbeam above on their apparel.  Then the lord Clermont said:  ’Chandos, how long have ye taken on you to bear my device?’ ‘Nay, ye bear mine,’ said Chandos, ’for it is as well mine as yours.’  ‘I deny that,’ said Clermont, ’but an it were not for the truce this day between us, I should make it good on you incontinent that ye have no right to bear my device.’  ‘Ah, sir,’ said Chandos, ’ye shall find me to-morrow ready to defend you and to prove by feat of arms that it is as well mine as yours,’ Then Clermont said:  ’Chandos, these be well the words of you Englishmen, for ye can devise nothing of new, but all that ye see is good and fair.’  So they departed without any more doing, and each of them returned to their host.

The cardinal of Perigord could in no wise that Sunday make any agreement between the parties, and when it was near night he returned to Poitiers.  That night the Frenchmen took their ease; they had provision enough, and the Englishmen had great default; they could get no forage, nor they could not depart thence without danger of their enemies.  That Sunday the Englishmen made great dikes and hedges about their archers, to be the more stronger; and on the Monday in the morning the prince and his company were ready apparelled as they were before, and about the sun-rising in like manner were the Frenchmen.  The same morning betimes the cardinal came again to the French host and thought by his preaching to pacify the parties; but then the Frenchmen said to him:  ’Return