His soldiers spying his undaunted spirit

[♦]A Talbot! a Talbot! cried out amain

And rush’d into the bowels of the battle.

130Here had the conquest fully been seal’d up,

[♦]If Sir John Fastolfe had not play’d the coward:

[♦]He, being in the vaward, placed behind

With purpose to relieve and follow them,

Cowardly fled, not having struck one stroke.

135Hence grew the general wreck and massacre;

Enclosed were they with their enemies: