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Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 On the next daie they went toward Dixmew, and by the guiding of a prisoner, that should haue beene hanged on the next morning,The good ser|uice of a wretch that should haue béene hanged they issued out of the south gate of the towne of Dixmew, and were con|ueied by their said guide by an high banke set with willowes; so that the Gantois could not well espie them, and so secretlie gat to the end of their enimies campe, and there paused. The lord Daubeneie com|manded all men to send their horsses and wagons backe, but the lord Morleie said he would ride till he came to hand strokes. Thus they marched foorth till they came to a low banke, and no déepe ditch, where the ordinance laie; and there the archers shot altogi|ther, euerie man an arrow, and so fell prostrate to the ground.A policie. The enimies herewith discharged their ordi|nance, and ouershot them.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 The Almains lept ouer the ditch with their mo|rice pikes. The Englishmen in the fore-front waded the ditch, and were holpen vp by the Almains, and set on their enimies, and tooke manie prisoners. The o|ther Englishmen hasted by the causie to enter in at the north gate of the campe,The lord Morlie slaine where the lord Morleie being on horssebacke in a rich coate, was slaine with a gun. When his death was knowen, euerie man kil|led his prisoner, and slue all such as did withstand them, to the number of eight thousand men;The number of the slaine [...] both parts. in so much that of two thousand that came out of Bruges (as the Flemish chronicle reporteth) there came not home one hundred. On the English part was slaine the lord Morleie, and not an hundred more.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 The Englishmen tooke their ordinance and sent it to Newport, with all the spoile and great horsses. And by the waie hearing certeine Frenchmen to be at Ostend, they made thitherward: but the French|men fled, and so they burned part of the towne, and came againe to Newport, where the lord Daubeneie left all the Englishmen that were hurt and returned to Calis, where he buried the bodie of the lord Mor|leie. The Englishmen got great riches at this field, for they that went foorth in cloth, came home in silke,The Eng [...] souldiers in|riched. and those that went out on foot, came home on great horsses. The lord Cordes being at Ipre with twentie thousand men, was sore displeased with this ouer|throw; & therefore thinking to be reuenged, besieged the EEBO page image 771 towne of Newport right stronglie,Newport be| [...]ged by the Frenchmen. and shot dailie at the wals, breaking them in manie places.

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