Compare 1577 edition: 1 After this towne of Newcastell (otherwise called Drincourt) in those frontiers was besieged, R. Houed. Ia. Meir. Ger. Dor. The earle of Bullongne wounded, and di [...]th. and fi|nallie woone by surrender, by the said earle of Flan|ders, who reioised nothing at the gaine of that towne: for his brother Matthew the earle of Bullongne who should haue béene his heire, was shot into the knée with an arrow, as he approched to the wals, and died of the hurt within a few daies after. The earle of Flanders was so pensife for his brothers death, that he brake vp his iournie and returned, blaming his euill hap and follie in that he had attempted war against his coosen germane king Henrie, who neuer had harmed him, but rather had doone him manie great and singular pleasures from time to time.

¶ Good cause had the earle to giue ouer the prose|quuting of violence against his souereigne, being dawnted with so heauie a chance, & griped also with the grudge of conscience, in so vnkindlie rewarding his welwiller, at whose hands he confessed himselfe to haue receiued manie a benefit. Wherein we are to note, that ingratitude neuer hurieth anie so much as him or them in whom it is nestled. And hereto allu|deth the comedie-writer, when he saith verie neatlie,

—morem hunc homines habent, quod sibi voluntPl [...]nt. in C [...]

Dum id impetrãt, boni sunt: sed id vbi iam pene [...] se habẽt,

Ex bonis pessimi & fraudulentissimi sunt.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Moreouer Henrie the elder (after the iournie of Uernueil ended) came backe to Rouen, and there vnderstanding that Hugh earle of Chester, and Raft de Foulgiers, men of singular prowesse (who long be|fore were reuolted to his sonne Henrie) had taken EEBO page image 89 the castell of Dole in Britaine, and there making warre, brought all the countrie into trouble, he sent foorth streightwaies certeine of his capteines with the Brabanders to aid his people in those parts who on the twentith day of August (being monday) encountring with the enimies, [...] Houed. discomfited them in battell, tooke seauenteene knights, besides diuerse o|thers both horssemen and footmen, slue aboue fifteene hundred of the enimies being Britaines, and pursu|ing the residue, entred the towne which they wan, and droue their aduersaries into the castell, where they besieged them, and with all spéed aduertised the king of that enterprise, who immediatlie with all pos|sible hast came thither, applieng his whole diligence to win the place, that he might haue them which were within the same at his commandement.