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Compare 1577 edition: 1 Howbeit if we shall beleeue other, which wrote and liued in those daies, there was not peace at that time concluded: but after king Henrie had passed through Aniou and Poictou without battell, he came into Gascoigne, where he received the homages and dealties of manie noble men in those parties, and returning into Poitou, not onelie had the like also of sundrie lords and men of honour in that countrie, but also tooke the castell of Mirabeau by assault, thorough the manhood of the Englishmen, who chose rather with desperat aduentures to make entrance to honour, than by timorousnesse or want of courage to purchase reproch; for they knew verie well, that

Qui cupient fortes fieri, discrimina oportet
Multa pati, & multos coguntur ferre labores,

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