He returned instantly, followed by his men, and flung himself into the _melee_.

Shane receiving such a charge of those few men, and seeing more coming after, ran no farther risk, blew a recall note, and withdrew unpursued.

Fitzwilliam's courage alone prevented the army from being annihilated.

Out of 500 English 50 lay dead, and 50 more were badly wounded.

The survivors fell back to Armagh 'so _dismayed_ as to be unfit for farther service.' Pitiable were the lamentations of the lord deputy to Cecil on this catastrophe.