50, 58.] [Footnote 846: Pierre Sureau's account in Jarry, _Le compte de l'armee anglaise_, proofs and illustrations, no.

vi, pp.

45, 46.] The wasted fields of La Beauce, of l'Ile-de-France, and of Normandy could furnish them with no great store of sheep or oxen.

Their food was bad, their drink worse.

The vintage of 1427 had been bad, that of the following year was poor and weak--more like sour grapes than wine.[847] Now an old English author has written of the soldiers of his country: "They want their porridge and their fat bull-beeves: Either they must be dieted like mules And have their provender tied to their mouths Or piteous they will look, like drowned mice."[848] [Footnote 847: _Journal d'un bourgeois de Paris_, pp.