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Compare 1577 edition: 1 The duke continued at Compostella all the win|ter season, till towards March, and then (according to appointment taken betwixt him, and the king of Portingale, at their being togither at Mouson, for their iournie to be made into Castile) the said king assembled an armie of a thousand men of armes,The king of Portingale & the duke of Lancaster ioi|ning their ar|mies togither inuade Ca|stile. and ten thousand other souldiers, with the which entring the confines of Castile, he first tooke the towne of Feroule, and after ioining with the duke, who had in the meane while by his marshall taken the towns of Ruelles, Uille Lopes, Pounceuoide, Dighos, Ba|ionne in la Maroll, Ribadan, Maures, Besanses, and Orens, with others in the countrie of Gallis, they marched foorth with their whole powers both togi|ther, and passing ouer the riuer of Dure, entered into the countrie de Campo.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 ¶ Here the English writers make mention of a battell, which the constable of Castile should giue to the duke, and that the victorie remained on the dukes side, and the Spaniards chased out of the field. But Froissard (who liued in those daies,Uariance amongst writers. and learned that which he wrote of those that were with the duke in his iournie) maketh no remembrance of any such thing, but that contrarilie the king of Castile folow|ing the aduise of such Frenchmen as were sent into Spaine to aid him, caused all the riches of the coun|trie to be brought into the walled townes and for|tresses, which he stuffed with men of warre, to defend them from the Englishmen and Portingales; and further to cut off their vitels, and to kéepe them from hauing forrage abroad in the countrie, vnlesse such as were sent were garded with the greater troops for their suertie and defense.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 Thus bestowing the most part of all such men of warre, both Frenchmen and Spaniards, as he could make in places most conuenient for that purpose, he fullie determined not to giue battell till his enimies had wearied themselues in keeping of the fields, and that a new power was come to his aid out of France, which he dailie looked for. By which means it came to passe,Great death in the Eng|lish host in Spaine by reason of the great heat of that countrie. that the Englishmen not vsed to such hot aire as they found in those parts in that season of the yeare (for it was about Midsummer) fell dailie into manie perillous diseases, whereof no small num|ber died; and other became so faint, that they were not able to helpe themselues, that to consider the mi|serie in which they were, it would haue rued the harts of their verie foes. Herevpon was the duke constrei|ned to fall to a communication for a peace, which in the end was accorded, though not at this instant.

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