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Compare 1577 edition: 1 After the battell, king Peter went to Burgus, and was receiued into the citie, and shortlie after, that is to say, on the wednesdaie folowing, the prince came thither, and there held his Easter with king Peter, and tarried there aboue thrée weekes. Froissard. In the meane time, they of Asturgus, Toledo, Lisbone, Cor|doua, Galice, Siuill, and of all other places of the kingdome of Spaine, came in, and did homage vnto king Peter, promising him to be true to him euer after: for they saw that resistance would not auaile so long as the prince should be in the countrie. After this, the prince was in hand with king Peter, for the souldiers wages, by whose aid he was thus resto|red into his former estate. King Peter went vnto Siuill, to make shift for monie accordinglie, promi|sing to returne againe, within a few weekes, and to sée euerie man paid, according as he had couenan|ted. For when he was driuen out of his realme, and came to Burdeaux to craue aid of the prince, he pro|mised, that so soone as he should be restored to his kingdome, he would see the souldiers contented of their wages, and bound himselfe thereto, both by his oth and writing giuen vnder his seale. But when he obteined his purpose, he forgat all fréendlie dutie, and was so farre from performing his promise, that he cloaked his ill meaning with a feigned tale, and sent the prince a message spiced with hypocrisie and vnthankfulnesse, two foule faults in a priuat man, much more odious in a prince and great state, as the poet wiselie and truelie saith in this distichon:

Omne animi vitium tantò conspectius in se
Crimen habet, quantò maior qui peccat habetur.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 The prince tarried for the returne of king Peter, both weekes and moneths, but could not heare anie tidings of him. He therefore sent vnto him, to vnder|stand the cause of the staie: his answer was, that he had prouided monie, and sent it by certeine of his men toward the prince, but the companions that ser|ued vnder the prince, had met with it by the way, and taken it from them that had the conueiance of it: he therefore required the prince to rid the realme of those snaphances,King Peters dissimulation and to leaue behind him some of his officers, to whome in name of him he would make paiment of such monie as was due. This an|swer pleased not the prince, but there was no reme|die, for other at that present he could not haue, for a|nie likeliehood he saw: and therefore, taking order with king Peter how the paiment should be made, EEBO page image 400 he prepared to returne into Gascoigne. The order therefore taken betwixt them, was this. Within foure moneths next insuing, king Peter should paie the one halfe of the wages due to the soldiers for this iournie vnto such as the prince should leaue behind him to receiue the same, and the other halfe within one yeare.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 Tho. Walsi. The prince was compelled to breake his plate, and to make monie thereof to paie his soldiers, name|lie,The prince put to his shifts for de| [...]ault of paie. the companions, which he had called foorth of France, so that he left himselfe bare of all riches, to kéepe touch with them, although king Dampeter failed in his promise each waie foorth. For where the prince should haue had in recompense towards his charges, the countie of Algezara, and other lands, by the said Dampeters assignement, so that he sent one of his knights to take seizine of the same lands, he was neuertheles disappointed, for he could not come by any peaceable possession of those lands, and so re|turned greatlie impouerished, hauing spent in this iournie all that he could make. In the meane time the bastard Henrie, hauing escaped out of the field by flight, got him into France, and there through fauor of the duke of Aniou, so purchased for himselfe, that he got togither a certeine number of Britains and o|ther soldiers, & comming to the frontiers of the prin|ces land in Gascoigne, got a towne in Bigore, cal|led Bannieres, and made war vpon the princes sub|iects.

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