Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 The onelie pitie (if fond I cannot saie) that I haue of you,The lord [...] words [...] his soldiers being ashamed [...] their time| [...]nesse, and [...]pitieng [...] present [...]. hath caused me this daie to make such offers of composition, as neither your honesties, nor my honour, nor either of our duties in my thought maie well beare, which refused to take harder to the vtter defacing of our credits, sith the best would blot it.
If I would, souldiers, your selues (me thinketh) in vengeance thereof should turne your weapons vp|on me, and sacrifice so hartlesse a capteine, rather than to take it as a token of a pitifull capteine ouer you, and to yéeld thanks for the same. We haue be|gun, as becommed vs: we haue yet held on as dutie dooth bind vs: let vs end then as honest dutie and fame dooth will vs. Neither is there anie such extre|mitie of despaire in our case, but that we maie yet dearelie inough sell our skins yer we lose them. Let vs then either march out vnder our ensignes dis|plaied, or else herewith die vnder them displaied.The soldiers herewith in a mutinie flatlie answered, that they for his vainglory would not sell their liues.The lord [...] soul| [...]rs in a mu| [...] doo [...] against [...]. The desperatnesse of their case was not vnknowne vnto them (said they) and that their liues in other ser|uice might yet auaile their prince and countrie. In this now further to venture, was but like oxen to be thrust to the butcher. That his lordship was not to ex|pect anie one blow at their hands.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 4 5 Herewith in hast came one from monsieur De|strees that stood at the rampire, aduising him to send his souldiors to the wals, otherwise that the Swisses would assuredlie enter. So constreined, his lordship promised them to compound, and so he got them to the wals. Then my lord going to councell, at length agreed vpon these conditions. [...] of a|greement be| [...]eene the [...] Greie [...] the eni| [...] First, that the castell with all the furniture therin as well vittels as great artillerie, powder, and all other munitions of warre, should be wholie rendred without wasting, hiding, or minishment thereof. Secondarilie, that the lord Greie with all the capteins, officers and others, ha|uing charge there, should remaine prisoners at the dukes pleasure, to be ransomed after the maner of warre. Thirdlie, that all the rest, as well souldiors as others, should depart with their armors, and baggage to what parties it séemed them best: neuer|thelesse to passe without sound of drum or trumpet, or ensigne, and to leaue them behind. These articles sent by monsieur Destrees to the duke were accep|ted, & so in the after noone, the duke himselfe came & receiued the keies of my lord Greie, who presentlie went out, and was giuen to the marshall Strozzie, and from him sold to monsieur de Randan, by whom he came into his brother the counte de Rochefou|calt his hands, and there rested, till he was redée|med for foure and twentie thousand crownes.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 The daie following, that is saie the two and twen|tith of Ianuarie,The soldiors [...] Guisnes [...] thense [...] bag and [...]. all the souldiors of the said fortresse of Guisnes, as well English as strangers, with all the rest of the inhabitants, and other (excepted the lord Greie himselfe, maister Arthur Greie his son, sir Henrie Palmer knight, Montdragon capteine of the Spaniards, and other men of charge reserued by the composition) departed with their bag and bag|gage from thense towards Flanders. At whose is|suing foorth, there were estéemed to the number of eight or nine hundred able men for the warre, part English & part Burgognians. Of Spaniards so few were left, as no account is to be made of them, in maner the whole number of them being slaine, and selling their liues right déerelie, according to the or|der of good & hardie souldiors. Thus endeth this siege, wherein for breuities sake we haue left to saie anie thing of the prouisions that the lord Greie made a|gainst the same, of the aduertisements that from time to time he sent to king Philip and quéene Ma|rie, and of their answers, of the sundrie aduentures which they of Guisnes had with the enimie during their being about Calis, and of the great and ma|nie booties that were there taken. Onelie in a word or two will I ad what bands of strangers were within the péece, because thereof as in an other thing or two,What bands of strangers were within the [...]ort. I doo find maister Grafton in his chronicle speake at rouers. First came in Montdragon, with two Spaniards more, verie valiant men, whome did follow within a daie or two, about foure or fiue and thirtie other Spaniards, all shot, of which (as I haue heard) there went not fiue out of the ca|stell.