text:  For these fellows of Hainaulters (who to do them justice had fought like dragons ) having lost their head were powerless; and of what use hacking to pieces an exhausted carcass?--But our troops were too much exasperated by the insolent resistance and defiance they had experienced to hear of mercy; and soon the conduits ran blood and shrieks and groans rent the air more cruelly than the previous roar of the artillery