Compare 1577 edition: 1 And whie?Through dis|sention at home, all last abroad. Euen bicause the diuelish diuision that reigned in England, so incombred the heads of the noble men there, that the honor of the realme was cléerelie forgotten, so that (to conclude) the daie ap|pointed came, but succour looked for came not. By reason whereof, all the townes of Aquitaine (except Baion) deliuered their keies, and became vassals to the French nation; yet the citizens of Burdeaux, in hope of rescue, required a longer daie of battell, which was granted. But at the daie appointed, when no reléefe came, they rendred themselues and the ci|tie to their aduersaries, their liues and goods saued, with licence and safe conduct to all persons which would depart and saile into England. Then finallie was the citie of Baion besieged, and with mines and batterie constreined to yéeld it selfe into the French|mens hands.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 Beside the agreements taken and made with the townes, diuerse noble men made seuerall com|positions, as Gaston de Fois, & Capdaw de Bue [...], whome king Henrie the fift made earle of Longe|uile, and knight of the garter; whose ancestors were euer true to England. Which agréed, that he and his sonne Iohn de Fois, whome king Henrie the sixt made earle of Kendale, and also knight of the garter, should enioy all their lands in Aquitaine, giuen to them by the kings of England, or by the dukes of Aquitaine. And sith their intent was still to serue the king of England, they agréed to deliuer into the custodie of the earle of Fois, the sonne and heire of the said earle of Kendale, being of the age of thrée yeares; to the intent that if he at his full age denied to become subiect to the French king, or before that time deceassed; that then (after the death of his father and grandfather) all the said lands should wholie re|maine to the next heire of their bloud, either male or female, being vnder the obeisance of the French king or his heires.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 Manie other noble men, whose hearts were good English, made like compositions, and some came in|to England, and others went to Calis, and bare great offices there: as the lord Duras, which was marshall of that towne; and monsieur Uauclere, which was deputie there vnder the earle of War|wike. Thus were the Englishmen cléerelie displaced and lost the possession of all the countries, townes,All lost in France. castels, and places within the realme of France; so that onelie Calis, Hammes and Guines, with the marches thereof remained in their hands, of all those their dominions and seigniories which they sometime EEBO page image 637 held in the parties beyond the seas. Whereby Eng|land suffered a partile but not a totall eclipse of hir glorie, in continuall loosing & nothing gaining of the enimie. ¶ Which recouerie was of great facilitie to the French, Abr. Fl. ex [...] sub He [...]. 6. for that where they came, they found litle or no resistance, but rather a voluntarie submis|sion & yéelding as it were with holding vp of hands, yer they came to handstroks. So that in such victories and conquests consisted small renowme, sith without slaughter & bloudshed hardie enterprises are not at|chiued. Notablie therefore speaketh Anglorum praelia of these bloudlesse and sweatlesse victories, saieng:
Delphinus totos (nullo prohibente) per agrosFrancorum transit, priùs expugnata receptansOppida: perfacile est populum domuisse volentem,Tendentem manus vltrò; nec clarior ornatGloria vincentem fuso sine sanguine regna.