These mighty men the mighty Vanward led.
The mayne brought forward by the Duke of Barre,
Neuers, and Beamont, men of speciall name:
Alanzon thought, not equall’d in this Warre,
With them Salines, Rous, and Grandpre came,
Their long experience, who had fetcht from farre,
Whom this expected Conquest doth enflame,
Consisting most of Crosbowes, and so great,
As France her selfe it well might seeme to threat.
The Duke of Brabant of high valour knowne,