And when the men of arms of England saw that the marshals’ battle was discomfited and that the duke’s battle began to disorder and open, they leapt then on their horses, the which they had ready by them:  then they assembled together and cried, ‘Saint George!  Guyenne!’ and the lord Chandos said to the prince:  ’Sir, take your horse and ride forth; this journey is yours:  God is this day in your hands:  get us to the French king’s battle, for their lieth all the sore of the matter.  I think verily by his valiantness he will not fly:  I trust we shall have him by the grace of God and Saint George, so he be well fought withal:  and, sir, I heard you say that this day I should see you a good knight.’  The prince said, ’Let us go forth; ye shall not see me this day return back,’ and said, ’Advance, banner, in the name of God and of Saint George,’ The knight that bare it did his commandment:  there was then a sore battle and a perilous, and many a man overthrown, and he that was once down could not be relieved again without great succour and aid.  As the prince rode and entered in among his enemies, he saw on his right hand in a little bush lying dead the lord Robert of Duras and his banner by him,[6] and a ten or twelve of his men about him.  Then the prince said to two of his squires and to three archers:  ’Sirs, take the body of this knight on a targe and bear him to Poitiers, and present him from me to the cardinal of Perigord, and say how I salute him by that token.’  And this was done.  The prince was informed that the cardinal’s men were on the field against him, the which was not pertaining to the right order of arms, for men of the church that cometh and goeth for treaty of peace ought not by reason to bear harness nor to fight for neither of the parties; they ought to be indifferent:  and because these men had done so, the prince was displeased with the cardinal, and therefore he sent unto him his nephew the lord Robert of Duras dead:  and the chatelain of Amposte was taken, and the prince would have had his head stricken off, because he was pertaining to the cardinal, but then the lord Chandos said:  ’Sir, suffer for a season:  intend to a greater matter:  and peradventure the cardinal will make such excuse that ye shall be content.’

      [6] The original adds, ’qui estoit de France au sentoir (sautoir)
      de gueulles.’

Then the prince and his company dressed them on the battle of the duke of Athens, constable of France.  There was many a man slain and cast to the earth.  As the Frenchmen fought in companies, they cried, ‘Mountjoy!  Saint Denis!’ and the Englishmen, ‘Saint George!  Guyenne!’ Anon the prince with his company met with the battle of Almains, whereof the earl of Sarrebruck, the earl Nassau and the earl Nidau were captains, but in a short space they were put to flight:  the archers shot so wholly together that none durst come in their dangers:  they slew many a man that could not come to no ransom: