Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 The duke of Norffolke and the lord priuie seale caused amount to be raised,A mount raised. and aloft thereon were certeine peeces of artillerie planted to shoot into the towne. Moreouer they compassed the walles so on ech hand with their seuerall camps and trenches, that hardlie might anie escape either in or out vnespied. Sir Francis Brian was appointed with certeine bands,Sir Francis Brian. conteining about the number of a thousand men, to lodge in a campe fortified by himselfe, ouer against one part of the towne, to stop certeine passa|ges on that side, that no succors should enter by the same to the reléefe of them within. There were skir|mishes dailie betwixt them that sallied forth of the gates, and the Englishmen that watched and war|ded in the trenches, and other places, insomuch that diuerse lost their liues, and some were irrecouerablie wounded, as Anglorum praelia witnesseth, saieng:

Confossi saeuo moriuntur vulnere multi

Disperso cerebro; faciei nulla figura.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 On a daie as sir Thomas Poinings soldiours were warding in one of the trenches,Tiberio, that alter serued the king of England. an Italian se|cretlie comming forth of the towne, fetched awaie the said sir Thomas Poinings his ensigne; and not|withstanding the pursute that was made after him, he escaped and got into the towne with it, to the great displeasure of the whole campe. But as the enimies sometimes went awaie with the aduantage of their attempted enterprises, so ofttimes againe they paid for their aduenturing ouer rashlie aboue the com|mon price of the market.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 But here I cannot but lament the negligence vsed in that season: for there is not one English writer to be found extant, that hath written anie thing effectuallie of the exploits atchiued in that iornie;Negligence of English|men for not putting their valiant doo|ings in wri|ting. so as we are driuen to borrow of the aduersa|ries that haue written thereof, wanting other helps of our owne nation to furnish our booke héerin accor|ding to our wished purpose. But neuerthelesse, to giue occasion to those that yet liue, and can best doo it, to set forth hereafter a more perfect discourse ther|of, I haue thought it not amisse to recite in part what I haue read and learned of such things as then were accounted worthie of relation, and now like to be buried in the dimme booke of obliuion, vnlesse some fauourer of notable euents chancing in the as|siegement of those two townes, Bullongne and Muttrell, will put to his helping hand to report the same to posteritie.