They chafed at the delay.

Give the city time to array itself, let it recover from its first surprise, and all their forces might scarcely avail to crush opposition.
It was at this moment, when the burghers had drawn back a little that they might deliver a decisive attack, that Basterga came up.

Fabri the Syndic had taken the command, and had shouted to all who had windows looking on the lane to light them.

He had arrayed his men in some sort of order and was on the point of giving the word to charge, when he heard the steps of Basterga and some others coming up; he waited to allow them to join him.

The instant they arrived he gave the word, and followed by some thirty burghers armed with half-pikes, halberds, anything the men had been able to snatch up, he charged the Savoyards bravely.
In the narrow lane but four or five could fight abreast, and the Grand Duke's men were clad in steel and well armed.