There fifteene thousand of their Gentrie dy’de
With each two Souldiers, slaughtered by his side.
King Iohn of France and Philip his Son taken by the Black Prince at the Battaile of Poyteers, brought Prisoners to England.
Iohn of Cleumount.
Peter of Burbon.
Nor the Blacke Prince, at Poyteers battaile fought;
Short of his Father, and himselfe before,
Her King and Prince, that prisoners hither brought
From forty thousand weltring in their gore,
That in the Worlds opinion it was thought,