For in the morning's combat—he was slain.

XXXII

"Out of defeat escaped some scant three score

Of all his followers. And night and day

We fled; and while the Roundheads pressed us sore,

And in our road, good as a fortress, lay

The Moated Manse,—where our three-score or more

Might well hold out,—I pointed them the way.

And we are come, amid its wrecks to end