In Angl. præl. sub Hen. 5.
Quærere regna, labor; virtus est parta tueri
Maxima.
Hall.
These bands belonged to the earle of Longueuile & to the lord de Lespar Gascoignes.
Hist. des ducs de Normand
The king plaieth the porters part.
The king of England, perceiuing, by this new aliance, that nothing was lesse to be looked for, than peace at the hands of the Frenchmen, deuised still how to win townes and fortresses, which were kept against him: and now that the truce was expired, on the thirtith daie of Iulie, he being as then within the towne of Mante, appointed certeine bands of souldiers in the after noone to passe out of the gates, giuing onelie knowledge to the capteins what he would haue them to doo. And to the intent that no inkling of the enterprise should come to the enimies eare, he kept the gates himselfe as porter. These that were thus sent foorth being guided by the earle of Longueuile, otherwise called the captau de Buef, were commanded in secret maner as they could to draw toward the towne of Pontoise, and to kéepe themselues in couert till the darke of the night, and then approch the walles of that towne, and vpon espieng their aduantage to enter it by scaling, hauing ladders and all things necessarie with them for the purpose.
This captau was brother to the earle of Fois.
Hall.
Pontoise surprised by the Englishmen.