"The game's afoot,
Follow your spirit, and upon this charge
Cry, God for Harry, England, and St. George!"
while in "King Henry VI." we find the line,
"Then strike up, drums—God and St. George for us!"[[25]]
At the battle of Poitiers, September 19th, 1356, upon the advance of the English, the Constable of France threw himself, Lingard tells us, across their path with the battle shout, "Mountjoy, St. Denis," which was at once answered by "St. George, St. George," and in the onrush of the English the Duke and the greater part of his
followers were swept away, and in a few minutes slain. In an interesting old poem on the siege of Rouen in 1418, written by an eye-witness, we read that on the surrender of the city,
"Whanne the gate was openyd there
And thay weren ready in to fare,
Trumpis blew ther bemys of bras,