Compare 1577 edition: 1 The king of England well perceiuing himselfe in danger, remoued from the place where he was in|camped, and marched forward through the countries EEBO page image 371 of Pontiew and Uimew, approching vnto the good towne of Abuile, and at length by one of the priso|ners named Gobin de Grace, he was told where he might passe with his armie ouer the riuer of Some, at a [...] in the same riuer, being hard in the bot|tome, and verie shallow at an eb water. The French king vnderstanding that the K. of England sought to passe the riuer of Some, sent a great baron of Normandie, one sir Godmare du Foy, to defend the passage of the same riuer,Sir God|mare du Foy. with a thousand men of armes, and six thousand on foot with the Genowaies. This sir Godmare had with him also a great number of them of Muxterell and others of the countrie, so that he had in all to the number of twelue thousand men, one and other, and hearing that the king of England was minded to passe at Blanchetake (which was the passage that Gobin Agace had infor|med the king of England of) he came thither.Gobin Agace When the Englishmen approched, he arranged all his com|panie to defend the passage.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 And suerlie when the Englishmen at the lowe water entered the foord to passe ouer, there was a sharpe bickering, for diuerse of the Frenchmen in|countred the Englishmen on horssebacke in the wa|ter, and the Genowaies did them much hurt, and troubled them sore with their crosbowes: but on the other side,The English men wan the passage ouer the water of Some. the English archers shot so wholie togither, that the Frenchmen were faine to giue place to the Englishmen, so that they got the passage and came ouer, assembling themselues in the field, and then the Frenchmen fled, some to Abuile, some to saint Ri|quier. They that were on foot could not escape so well as those on horssebacke, insomuch that a great num|ber of them of Abuile, Mutterell, Arras, and S. Ri|quier were slaine and taken, for the chase indured more than a great league. Caxton. The number slaine. F [...]o [...]sard. There were slaine in all to the number of two thousand. When the K. of Eng|land had thus passed the riuer, he acquitted Gobin Agace, and all his companie of their ransomes, and gaue to the same Gobin an hundred nobles, and a good horsse, and so the king road foorth as he did before. His marshals road to Crotaie by the sea side,Crotay burnt and burnt the towne, and tooke all such wines and goods as were in the ships and barks which laie there in the hauen.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 One of the marshals road to the gates of Abuile, and from thence to S. Riquier, and after to the towne of Rue saint Esperit. This was on a fridaie, and both the marshals returned to the kings host about noone, and so lodged all togither about Cressie in Pontiew, where hauing knowledge that the French king followed to giue him battell, he commanded his marshals to choose a plot of ground, somewhat to his aduantage, that he might there abide his aduersa|ries. In the meane time the French king being come with all his puissance vnto Abuile, and hearing how the king of England was passed ouer the riuer of Some, and discomfited sir Godmare du Foy, was sore displeased in his mind: but when he vnderstood that his enimies were lodged at Cressie, and meant there to abide him, he caused all his people to issue out of Abuile, and earlie on the saturdaie in the mor|ning, anon after sunne rising he departed out of the towne himselfe, and marched towards his enimies. The king of England vnderstanding that his ad|uersarie king Philip still followed him, to giue him battell, & supposing that the same saturdaie he would come to offer it, rose betimes in the morning, and commanded euerie man first to call vpon God for his aid, then to be armed, and to draw with speed into the field, that in the place before appointed they might be set in order of battell. Beginning his enterprise at inuocation or calling vpon God, he was the more fortunate in his affaires, and sped the better in the progresse of his actions, as the issue of the warre she|wed. A notable example to euerie priuat man, to re|member to call vpon God when he purposeth anie thing, for as the poet saith, and that verie christianlie,

—nihil est mortalibus aegris

Vtilius, quàm coelestem,Mar. Pal. in sag. sancté pié

Orando sibi quaerere opem.