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 the moat among the Carps, and to see how they will mumble and jumble it to and fro; how others will puff and snuff, and take it ill not to have part of it, and how in fine, they will plainly fall to blows, and fight for it. You would wonder, how such hot passions should be found in cold water: but every thing that lives, will fight for that which makes it live; its Vittails.

Having seen Fountainbelleau, I saw one extraordinary thing in the rest of the way to Lyons, but an old Inscription in letters of gold, upon a woodden Fabrick, a mile before I came to Montargis, importing, that the English being encamped here, had been forced to rase their Siege before Montargis, by reason of great raynes and sudden inundations. Some of the French Historians will have it, that it was the Count de Dunois, that forced the English to raise the Siege here: but I had rather believe publick inscriptions, then private flattery: and it was more honourable for the English to be overcome by God, then by men,