Compare 1577 edition: 1 This night now, great noise & working was heard in the dich, wherevpon the bulworke was once or twice on alarum. At the last with cressets it was espied that they were making a bridge. The morning came, and then the same was séene to be finished,The French make bridges. emptie casks with ropes fastened togither, & sawed boords laid thereon. This yet did but put them with|in, in a certeintie of that which before they accounted of, and stood prepared for. To be short, the enimies spent all the daie till it was full two of the clocke in batterie, & beating at the two last flankers, which at length they woone from them within, & the gunners of either slaine. Wherevpon the lord Greie taking counsell of sir Henrie Palmer,Consultation betwéene the lord Greie and the English gentlemen. master Lewes Diue and Montdragon the leader of the Spaniards: it was resolued, that there might be order to make a fucasie within the bulworke, and presentlie to with|draw all from thence, sauing a certeine for a face and stale to toll in the enimie, and then to haue blowne it EEBO page image 1139 vp whole to the destruction of them all.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Rich. Graf [...]on. In the meane time, the duke of Guise hauing gi|uen order to monsieur Dandelot coronell of the French footmen,The duke of Guise and mõsieur Dan|delot with their powers. that he with his bands should be in a readinesse to giue the assault when signe should be giuen, did withdraw him to an higher ground, from whence he might plainlie discouer the behauiour as well of his souldiors in the assault giuing, as also of the defendants in answering the same. And percei|uing not so manie of the English part appearing for defense (as he douted there would) gaue order foorth|with, that a regiment of his most forward lance, knights should mount the brech, to open the first pas|sage: and that monsieur Dandelot with his French footbands should backe them, which order was follo|wed, with such hast & desperat hardines, that entring a déepe ditch full of water, from the bottome whereof to the top of the breach, in some places, was well neare fortie foot, Rabutine. without feare either of the water beneath, or the fire aboue, they mounted the breach.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 And whereas the duke had prepared (as ye haue heard) bridges made of planke boords, borne vp with casks and emptie pipes, tied one to another, for his men to passe the said ditch: manie of them now at this assault, without care of those bridges, plunged into the water,The desperat aduenture of the French. and tooke the next waie to come to the assault. Which hot hast notwithstanding, the as|sailants were at the first so stoutlie repelled and put backe by the defendants, being furnished with great store of wildfire, and other fucasies for the purpose, that they were turned headlong one vpon another, much faster than they came vp, not without great wast and slaughter of their best and most forward souldiors, to the small comfort of the stout duke, who (as is said before) stood all this while vpon a little hill to behold this businesse. Wherefore he not induring this sight any longer,The duke of Guise in a [...]age with his soldiers. as a man inraged, ran among his men, so reprouing some, and incouraging other, that the assault was hot renewed, with much more vehemencie and furie than before, and with no lesse sturdie obstinacie and desperation receiued by the defendants, whereby all the breach beneath was filled with French carcases.