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Compare 1577 edition: 1 Wherevpon the one and twentith of October, he marched out of Calis, accompanied with the dukes of Norffolke and Suffolke, the marquesses of Dor|set and Excester, the erles of Arundell, Oxford, Sur|reie, Essex, Darbie, Rutland, Huntington, and Sus|sex, with diuerse vicounts, barons, knights of the garter, and other of the nobilitie and gentlemen freshlie apparelled, and richlie trimmed; and com|ming to the place appointed, he there met with the French king,The inter|uiew betwixt the kings of England and France. who was come to receiue him with all honor that might be: and after salutations and em|bracings vsed in most louing maner, the king of England went with the French K. to Bullongne; and by the waie was incountered by the French kings thrée sons, and other great lords that atten|ded them, with welcomming the king of England; he them gentlie receiued, and so all this noble com|panie came to Bullongne, where the king of Eng|land and his nobles were so noblie interteined, fea|sted, banketed, and cheared, that woonder it was to consider the great plentie of viands, spices, wines, and all other prouision necessarie for man and horsse, so that there was no more but aske and haue; and no man durst take anie monie, for the French king paid for all.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 EEBO page image 929The fiue and twentith of October, whilest the king laie thus in Bullongne, the French king called a chapiter of the companions of his order named S. Michaell, of whome the king of England was one, and so there elected the dukes of Norffolke and Suf|folke to be companions of the same order:The dukes of Norffolke and Suffolke [...] into the order of S. Michaell. and being brought to the chapiter, they had their collars deli|uered to them, and were sworne to the statutes of the order, their obeisance to their souereigne lord alwaie reserued. Thus the two kings laie in Bullongne, mondaie, tuesdaie, wednesdaie, and thursdaie: and on fridaie the fiue and twentith of October, they departed out of Bullongne to Calis. Without the towne of Calis about the distance of two miles, the duke of Richmond the kings base son, with a great companie of noble men,The duke of Richmond. which had not béene at Bul|longne, met them, and saluting the French king, embraced him in most honorable and courteous ma|ner.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 Thus they passed forward, and came to Newn|ham bridge, and so to Calis, where was such prouisi|on made for the receiuing of them, as well for lodg|ings, plate, and all such other furniture of houshold, as also of all sorts of viands, wines, and other neces|saries, that it séemed woonderfull: in so much as the proportion assigned to the French lords oftentimes was so abundant, that they refused a great part thereof. The French kings traine was twelue hun|dred horsses, or rather aboue. But there was lodging inough in Calis, not onlie for them, but also for ma|nie other, so that there were aboue eight thousand persons lodged within the towne in that season. The French king comming thither on the fridaie, tarri|ed there till tuesdaie the thirtith of October, and then departed; the king of England accompanieng him out of the towne, till he came to enter into the French ground, and there either tooke leaue of other with right princelie countenance, louing behauiour, and so hartie words, that all men reioised that saw them.

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