Four or five hundred of the assailants--nearly all who had entered the city--were slain, and about fifty of the burghers.
Hohenlo soon came back, with Colonel Ysselstein, and two thousand fresh troops.

But their noses, says a contemporary, grew a hundred feet long with surprise when they saw the gate shut in their faces.

It might have occurred to the Count, when he rushed out of the town for reinforcements, that it would be as well to replace the guard, which--as he must have seen--had abandoned their post.
Cursing his folly, he returned, mavellously discomfited, and deservedly censured, to Gertruydenberg.

And thus had a most important enterprise; which had nearly been splendidly successful, ended in disaster and disgrace.

To the recklessness of the general, to the cupidity which he had himself awakened in his followers, was the failure alone to be attributed.