French, ‘Sir, yield you,’ The king beheld the knight and said:  ’To whom shall I yield me?  Where is my cousin the prince of Wales?  If I might see him, I would speak with him.’  Denis answered and said:  ’Sir, he is not here; but yield you to me and I shall bring you to him.  ‘Who be you?’ quoth the king.  ‘Sir,’ quoth he, ’I am Denis of Morbeke, a knight of Artois; but I serve the king of England because I am banished the realm of France and I have forfeited all that I had there,’ Then the king gave him his right gauntlet, saying, ’I yield me to you,’ There was a great press about the king, for every man enforced him to say,[2] ‘I have taken him,’ so that the king could not go forward with his young son the lord Philip with him because of the press.

      [1] This ‘and’ should be ‘by,’ but the French text is responsible
      for the mistake.

      [2] ‘S’efforcoit de dire.’

The prince of Wales, who was courageous and cruel as a lion, took that day great pleasure to fight and to chase his enemies.  The lord John Chandos, who was with him, of all that day never left him nor never took heed of taking of any prisoner:  then at the end of the battle he said to the prince:  ’Sir, it were good that you rested here and set your banner a-high in this bush, that your people may draw hither, for they be sore spread abroad, nor I can see no more banners nor pennons of the French party; wherefore, sir, rest and refresh you, for ye be sore chafed.’  Then the prince’s banner was set up a-high on a bush, and trumpets and clarions began to sown.  Then the prince did off his bassenet, and the knights for his body and they of his chamber were ready about him, and a red pavilion pight up, and then drink was brought forth to the prince and for such lords as were about him, the which still increased as they came from the chase:  there they tarried and their prisoners with them.  And when the two marshals were come to the prince, he demanded of them if they knew any tiding of the French king.  They answered and said:  ’Sir, we hear none of certainty, but we think verily he is other dead or taken, for he is not gone out of the battles.’  Then the prince said to the earl of Warwick and to sir Raynold Cobham:  ’Sirs, I require you go forth and see what ye can know, that at your return ye may shew me the truth.’  These two lords took their horses and departed from the prince and rode up a little hill to look about them:  then they perceived a flock of men of arms coming together right wearily:[3] there was the French king afoot in great peril, for Englishmen and Gascons were his masters; they had taken him from sir Denis Morbeke perforce, and such as were most of force said, ‘I have taken him,’ ‘Nay,’ quoth another, ’I have taken him’:  so they strave which should have him.  Then the French king, to eschew that peril, said:  ’Sirs, strive not:  lead me courteously, and my son, to my cousin the prince, and strive not for my taking,