'Twas a Pause Like No Soldier Likes'

King Edward and his army were forced to cross a river while the tide was flowing in. The ford had been guarded by Andrew Kirkaby, who lived on pleasant sherwood with 1,000 archers. When they reached the other side of the stream it ran deep and red with blood. But before their rearward troops were over,. the french vanguard was on the hilltops we had just quitted during the tide being flowing in from the outer sea.