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Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 The citie of Burges.After this, they came before the citie of Burges, and there made a great skirmish at one of the ga [...]es, and there were manie feats of armes doone. The host departed from thence, without dooing anie more, and comming to a strong castell called Issoldune,Issoldune as|saulted. they fiercelie assailed it, but could not win it: the gentle|men within defended the walles and gates so man|fullie. Then passed they forward, and came to Uier|zon,Uierzon woone. a great towne and a good castell, but it was no|thing stronglie fortified; and therefore was it woone perforce, the people within it being not sufficient to resist the valiant puissance of the Englishmen. Here they found wine and other vittels in great plentie, and herevpon they taried there three daies to refresh themselues at ease. But before they departed, the prince had aduertisement giuen him that the French king was come to Chartres, with an huge assemblie of men of warre, and that all the townes and passa|ges aboue the riuer of Loire were closed and kept. Then was the prince counselled to returne and passe by Touraine and Poictow,The passages stopped. and so that waie to Bur|deaux.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 The prince returneth.The prince following their aduise that thus coun|selled him, set forward toward Remorentine. The French king had sent into that countrie to kéepe the frontiers there, the lord of Craon, the lord Bouciqu|ault, and the heremit of Chaumount, the which with three hundred men of armes had followed the Eng|lishmen six daies togither, and could neuer find anie conuenient occasion to set vpon them: for the Eng|lishmen gouerned themselues so sagelie, that their enimies could not lightlie assaile them, but to their owne disaduantage. One day the Frenchmen laid themselues closelie in an ambush néere to the towne of Remorentine, at a maruellous streict passage, by which the Englishmen must néeds passe.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 On the same daie there were departed from the princes battell, by licence of the marshals, certeine capteins, Englishmen and Gascoignes, as the lord Bartholomew de Burghers [...]e or Burwasche (as some write him) the lord of Mucident Gascongne, monsieur Petiton de Courton, the lord de la Ware; the lord Basset, sir Daniell Passelew, sir Richard Ponchardon, sir Noell Loring, the yoong lord Spen|ser, and two of the Danbreticourts, sir Edward, and an other, who hauing with them two hundred men of armes, went foorth to run before Remorentine, that they might view the place.Remorentine. They passed foorth alongst by the Frenchmen which laie in ambush, as yée haue heard, and they were not aduised of them, and they were no sooner passed, but that the Frenchmen brake out, and gallopped after the Englishmen with great randon, hauing their speares in their rests.

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