Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 There were yet remaining also diuerse other of the French ships (besides those which the English|men had sunke and taken) which were drawne vp further into the land ward. The earle of Flanders therefore, and the English capteins iudged, that it should much hinder the French kings attempts, if they might win those ships also with the towne of Dam, wherin the king had laid vp a great part of his prouision for the furniture of his warres. Héerevpon the Englishmen were set on land, and ioining with the earls power, they marched strait towards Dam. This was vpon Whitsun éeuen, on the which day, as they were most busie in assaulting the towne and ships which laie there in the hauen, the French king EEBO page image 180 being come awaie from Gaunt, suddenlie set vpon them, and though in the beginning he found sharpe resistance, yet in the end, the Englishmen and Flem|mings ouerset with the great multitude of the Frenchmen,The English| [...] were put to flight, and chased to their ships, with the losse of two thousand men, besides those that were taken prisoners, amongst the which were found to be 22 knights.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 The earle of Flanders with the earles of Bullen and Salisburie, doubting to lose their ships, and la [...]e gotten bootie, sailed strait into one of the Iles of Ze|land called Walkeren. Then the French king con|streining them of Gaunt, Bruges, and Ypres, to de|liuer vnto him pledges, caused the towne of Dam, and his ships lieng there in the hauen to be burned,The French [...] his ships. doubting least they should come into the hands of his enimies. This doone, he returned into France, leauing his sonne Lewes and the earle of S. Paule in garrison at Lis [...]e and Doway, and for great sums of monie, which by agreement he receiued of the townes of Gaunt, Bruges, and Ypres, he restored vnto them their pledges. Thus saith Meire and Mat|thew Paris differeth not much from him touching the successe which chanced to the Englishmen by land. ¶ Héere will I staie a while in the further narration of this matter, and touch by the way a thing that hap|pened to king Iohn about this present time.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 In [...] of [...], or [...] as [...] writers haue. Sée M. Fox, [...] first, pag. 331. There was in this season an heremit, whose name was Peter, dwelling about Yorke, a man in great reputation with the common people, bicause that ei|ther inspired with some spirit of prophesie as the peo|ple beleeued or else hauing some notable skill in art magike, he was accustomed to tell what should fol|low after. And for so much as oftentimes his saiengs prooued true, great credit was giuen to him as to a verie prophet: which was no good consequence that therefore his predictions comprised vndoubted e|uents. Naie rather, sith in this pseudoprophet or false foreteller of afterclaps, these necessarie concurrents (namelie,
were wanting, and that he was contrarilie qualified to that which this heptastichon comprehendeth, neces|sarilie it foloweth, that he was not as he was taken, but rather a deluder of the people, and an instrument of satan raised vp for the inlargement of his king|dome; as the sequele of this discourse importeth. This Peter about the first of Ianuarie last past, had told the king, that at the feast of the Ascension it should come to passe, that he should be cast out of his king|dome. And (whether, to the intent that his words should be the better beléeued, or whether vpon too much trust of his owne cunning) he offered himselfe to suffer death for it, if his prophesie prooued not true. Herevpon being committed to prison within the ca|stell of Corf, when the day by him prefixed came, without any other notable damage vnto king Iohn, he was by the kings commandement drawne from the said castell,The heremit and his sonne hanged. vnto the towne of Warham, & there hanged, togither with his sonne.si sensus at effectus compresserit omnes,Si spernens prorsiss mortalia gaudia, seseAbdicet a cur [...]s terrenis, assiduòConetur studio ad superos extollere mentem,Tunc etenim sapiens fiet, poterít futuraCer [...]ere, vel vigilant vel s [...]mno oppressus inerti,Hoc pacto cecinêre olim ventura prophetae)