Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 The earle of Warwike as he was of a noble and inuincible courage, valiant, hardie,The earles answere. and not able to abide anie spot of reproch, whereby to lose the least péece of honour that might be, made this answer:
Whie (saith he) and doo your harts faile you so soone? Or are you so mad withall, to thinke that so long as anie life resteth in me, that I will consent to such dis|honour? Should I leaue the citie, heaping vp to my selfe and likewise to you such shame and reproofe as worthilie might be reputed an infamie to vs for euer? I will rather suffer whatsoeuer either fire or sword can worke against me.These words being vttered with such a courage as was maruellous to consider, he drew out his sword. Which other of the honorable and worshipfull that were then present likewise did, whome he commanded that each one should kisse others sword, according to an ancient custome vsed amongst men of war in time of great danger: and herewith they made a solemne vow, bin|ding it with a solemne oth, that they should not de|part from thence, till they had either vanquished the enimies, or lost their liues in manfull fight for de|fense of the kings honour.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 Whilest these things were in dooing, the rebels brake into the citie on that side, where was no suspi|cion of their entring at all; but being come almost to the bridges, they were incountered by the soldiers, beaten backe, and chased out by the same waie they came. The next daie being the six and twentith of August, there came to the earle 1400 lancequenets.Lanceque|nets come to the earle of Warwike. The rebels notwithstanding that such reinforcement of the earles power might haue somewhat discoura|ged them, yet trusting altogither to certeine vaine prophesies, which they had among them,The rebels trust in vaine prophesies. and set out in verses by such wisards as were there with them in the campe, they had conceiued such a vaine hope of prosperous successe in their businesse, that they little estéemed anie power that might come against them. Among other of those same verses, these were two:
The countrie gnuffes, Hob, Dick, and Hick,with clubs and clowted shoone,Shall fill vp Dussin dale with bloudof slaughtered bodies soone.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 Upon hope therefore of this and other vaine pro|phesies, the rebels through the diuels procurement,The rebels remooue. that had nourished and pricked them forward all this while in their wicked procéedings, determined to remoue thither, to the end that they might with more spéed make an end of the matter, before they should be driuen to disperse themselues by famine. For the earle of Warwike had taken order to haue the passages stopped, in such wise as no vittels could easilie be conueied to their campe, the want whereof began alreadie to pinch them. Herevpon setting fire on their cabins, which they had raised and built here and there of timber and bushes (the smoke whereof couered all the grounds about them) they came downe with their ensignes into the vallie called Dussin daie where with all spéed that might be they intrenched themselues about, and raising a rampire of a good height, set stakes also round about them, to kéepe off the horssemen.