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[Sidenote: A. D. 1340.]
THE name of Edward the Black Prince will always be remembered with love / and admiration by all young Englishmen, because he was by all accounts a / very brave, gallant, and courteous prince, feared by his foes and by his / friends beloved. His father, Edward the Third, had not given up his / hopes of regaining his lost possessions in France, so he spent two long / years in getting together money and ships and an army. He fought the / French fleet near Sluys. Both sides fought fiercely, and at last the / English won. The French had thought that they were quite sure to get the / best of it, and they were afraid to tell the King of France how the / English had beaten them, for hundreds of the French had been either / killed or been forced to jump into the sea to escape the swords of the / English.