Note 90 — V. The Swiss. A.D. 1315–1515.
Reading edition
The Confederates were forming their column in Sempach Wood, when Leopold’s artillery opened on them--
‘With their long lances levelled before the fight they stood, And set their cannon firing at those within the wood; Then to the good Confederates the battle was not sweet, When all around the mighty boughs dropped crashing at their feet.’
[Rough translation of Halbshuter’s contemporary ‘Sempacherlied.’]