The history of the League. . der, far from retiring, which onewouM have thought he fhoud haveendeavoured, as being able to havedone it without danger, while the E-nemies were employed, either infight-ing thofe who yet made refiftance,or in purfuing thofe who fled ; hemarchd flraight forward, bearing hisSword aloft, and calling by theirnames the moft confiderable Perfbnswho attended him, as the Duke ofElieufj the Marquefs of P if any , deTreiftel, de Roquelaure , de ChafteattVieuXy De Lzenconr, de Montigny^ d*Intevilk and de MirepoLx, and invitingthem to a£fc like himfelf, he made fofurious a c
The history of the League. . der, far from retiring, which onewouM have thought he fhoud haveendeavoured, as being able to havedone it without danger, while the E-nemies were employed, either infight-ing thofe who yet made refiftance,or in purfuing thofe who fled ; hemarchd flraight forward, bearing hisSword aloft, and calling by theirnames the moft confiderable Perfbnswho attended him, as the Duke ofElieufj the Marquefs of P if any , deTreiftel, de Roquelaure , de ChafteattVieuXy De Lzenconr, de Montigny^ d*Intevilk and de MirepoLx, and invitingthem to a£fc like himfelf, he made fofurious a charge on thofe whobelievdthemfelves to be already in poffeflionof the Vi&ory, that he ftopM themfhort, and broke into them, followdb^all his brave Attendants, who afterhis example fought like Lyons, andpufhd the Enemy with fb much vigor,that thofe fix Squadrons fell back incOnfufion upon each other. In theheat of this Combat, he kilPd withhis ow7n hand the valiant Colonel San-Jony who was ufing his uttermoft en-deavours. Tlie Hlfiory of the League. deavours though in vain, to reftorethe Fight: and being feconded by Bi-ron, who had rallyed about an hun-dred and twenty Horfe , and by theDuke of Trimonilk) who was come upto the Charge in the midftof the acti-on with his Company of Gendarmes*he purfud them at full fpur asfar as the great Body of Cavalry,which the Duke of Mayenne com-manded in the Vanguard. And doubt-left he had not faild to attaque him,as he was very defirous to have done,feeing his valour feconded with fiichgood fortune, if that grofs had notbeen flankd with two little Copfes,lind with Mufqueteers, and fiiftaindby the whole Spawfh Army , whichhad certainly overwhelmed him, incafe they had taken that critical op-portunity. In effect, the Duke of Mayenne ha-ving obfervd , during the Combat,the extreme danger in which the Kinghad involvd himfelf, which accord-ing to his heavy maxim, might pafsfor inconfideration and rafhnefs, lent,three or four times with all imagin
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