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.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 The Englishmen and the Gascoignes hearing horsses to come galloping after them, turned, and per|ceiuing them to be their enimies, stood still to abide them.A skirmish. The Frenchmen couragiouslie gaue the charge, and the Englishmen as valiantlie defended them, so that there insued a great skirmish, which con|tinued a long while, so that it could not be easilie iud|ged who had the better, nor on which side the fortu|nate issue of the present conflict would then fall (for
—mutabilis alea Martis)till that the battell of the English marshals appro|ched, the which when the Frenchmen saw comming by a wood side,The French|men fled. they fled streightwaies towards Re|morentine, and the Englishmen followed in chase so fast as their horsses might beare them, and entered the towne with the Frenchmen: but the French lords and the one halfe of their companie got into the castell, and so saued themselues.The prince lodgeth in the towne of Re|morentine. The prince hearing what had happened, came into the towne, and there lodged that night, sending sir Iohn Chandois to talke with the capiteines of the castell, to know if they would yeeld: and bicause they refused so to doo, on the next morrow he caused his people to giue an assault to the place, which continued the most part of the day, but yet missing their purpose, he commanded that they should draw to their lodgings, and rest them for that night.