Fit mettre pied à terre à . . ., ' made his men-at-arms

dismount. Burent un coup, ' drank a little.' Cependant arrivait . . ., the subject is l'imnioise cohue. Avançaient toujours à qui . • -, ' kept pushing forward to get into the tirst rank.' On se doit bien charger . . . faillit au besoin, ' Much good it does us to encumber ourselves with such rabble, which fails us in the moment ofneed.' À coup sùr, ' with deadly effect.' Si avant, ' so far forward.' À l'aveugle, ' blindly," 'at hazard.' Ne bougeaient d'un pas, ' did not move a step.' Communes may be translated hère by ' freemen.'