Compare 1577 edition: 1 Certeine Frenchmen and Almaines perforce o|pened the archers of the princes battell,The princ [...] battell p [...]|sed. and came to fight with the men of armes hand to hand. Then the second battell of the Englishmen came to succor the princes battell, and not before it was time, for they of that battell had as then inough to doo, in somuch that some which were about him, as the earle of Northampton, and others sent to the king,The earle of Northamp [...] sendeth to the king. where he stood aloft on a windmill hill, requiring him to ad|uance forward, and come to their aid, they being as then sore laid to of their enimies. The king herevp|on demanded if his sonne were slaine, hurt, or felled to the earth? No (said the knight that brought the message) but he is sore matched.The king [...] answer.

Well (said the king) returne to him and them that sent you, and saie to them that they send no more to me for any aduenture that falleth, so long as my son is aliue, for I will that this iournie be his, with the honor thereof. With this answer the knight returned, which greatlie incoura|ged them to doo their best to win the spurs, being half abashed in that they had so sent to the king for aid.

At length when it drew toward euening, and that the Frenchmen were beaten downe and slaine on ech handThe Fre [...] king depar|teth out of the field. king Philip as it were by constreint departed out of the field, not hauing as then past three score per|sons about him, of whome the lord Iohn of Heinault was one, by whose persuasion he cheefelie consented to ride his waie for his owne safegard, when he saw the losse was such as on that daie it could not be re|couered.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 The slaughter of the Frenchmen was great and lamentable,

Great slaug [...]|ter of French [...]men.

Caxton. Iac. Meir. Polydor. Froissard.

namelie for the losse of so manie noble men, as were slaine at the same battell, fought be|tweene Cressie and Broy on the saturdaie next fol|lowing the feast of saint Bartholomew being (as that yeare fell) the 26 of August. Among other which died that daie, these I find registred by name as chéefest, Iohn king of Boheme,Noble men slaine. Rafe duke of Lor|raine, Charles of Alanso brother germane to king Philip, Charles earle of Blois, Lewes earle of Flan|ders, also the earle of Harecourt, brother to the lord Geffrie of Harecourt, with the earles of Ausserre, Aumerle, and saint Poule, beside diuerse other of the nobilitie. The Englishmen neuer brake out of their battels to chase any man, but kept themselues togi|ther in their wards and ranks, and defended them|selues euer against such as came to assaile them. This battell ended about euening.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 When the Frenchmen were clearelie ouercome, and those that were left aliue fled and gone, so that the Englishmen heard no more noise of them,The king of England co [...]meth [...] from the [...]. king Ed|ward came downe from the hill (on the which he stood all that day with his helmet still on his head) and go|ing to the prince, imbraced him in his armes, and kis|sed him, saieng;

Faire sonne, God send you good per|seuerance in this your prosperous beginning, you EEBO page image 373 haue noblie acquit your selfe, you are well worthie to haue the gouernance of a realme committed to your hands for your valiant dooings.

The prince inclined himselfe to the earth in honouring his father, as he best could. This done, they thanked God togither with their souldiers for their good aduenture. For so the king commanded, and willed no man to make anie boast of his owne power, but to ascribe all the praise to almightie God for such a noble victorie; séeming héerein to be affected as Dauid was in the foure and fortith psalme; for he also referreth the happie successe of warre, and all victorie, vnto almightie God, and not to the strength of a multitude of men, saieng:

Tu nos ab hoste subtrahis, sternis solo

Georg. Buch. pa|raph. in psal.Infensa nobis agmina.

Non ergo s [...]per iure te cantabimus

Nostrae salutis vindicem?