Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 Rog. Houed. King Henrie returneth into Normandie.King Henrie the father being aduertised héereof, after he had set his businesse in order, touching the suertie and safe defense of the English estate, he re|turned into Normandie, and landed at Harfleet on a thursdaie being the eight daie of August, bringing backe againe with him his Brabanders, and a thou|sand Welshmen. In this meane while, king Lewes continued still his siege before Rouen, constreining them within by all meanes he could deuise to yeeld vp their citie. At length came the feast of Saint Lau|rence, on which daie the French king commanded that no man should attempt any enterprise against the citizens, granting them truce for that day, in worship of that saint. This truce was so acceptable a thing to them within, that they forgetting them|selues, without all respect to the danger wherein the citie stood, threw off their armour, and gaue them|selues to sléepe and rest. Some also fell to banketting and other pastimes in verie dissolute maner.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 ¶ But through this their remisse vsage and loose behauiour, and forgetting that a temporarie truce is no safe warrant of securitie and peace, they deriued danger and destruction to themselues; which it had beene their parts prouidentlie to haue preuented, and not through their carelesnesse to set open a gap of aduantage to their enimies, who pursued them with professed hostilitie, notwithstanding they reposed confidence in the truce that was granted. Héerein they are to be resembled to the cooks of whome Plau|tus speaketh verie neatlie, saieng,
Meaning sobrietie: so these delighting more in their dishes, than mistrusting their enimies, remem|bred to take the vse of any pleasure that the conueni|entnesse of this present time might proffer; onelie as cookes among all their sawces doo mind nothing lesse than sobernesse: so these in the abundance of their ioies, thought nothing of afterclaps, which af|terwards made them (like fooles) to sing an vnhappie had I wist. For the Frenchmen, perceiuing this their negligence, required licence of the French king to giue assault to the citie, declaring in what state the matter presentlie stood; who not meaning to violate the reuerence of that day, and his promi|sed faith, with any such vnlawfull attempt, comman|ded his men of warre that made the request in no wise to stirre.The French|men assault the citie, with|out comman|dement of their king. Two préests. Howbeit the souldiers vpon couetous|nesse of the spoile, raised the ladders to that part of the wall which they iudged to be most without war|ders, so that some of them mounting aloft, got vp, and were about to helpe vp their fellowes.—coquos equidem nimisDemiror, qui tot vtuntur condimentis, eos eoCondimento non vtier quod praestat omnibus,
Compare 1577 edition: 1 Now it happened (as God would haue it) that two préests being gone vp into the steeple of the cheefe church, to looke about them for their pleasures, fortu|ned to sée where the French men were about to en|ter the citie, and streightwaies gaue knowledge to the citizens beneath. Wherevpon the alarum rose, in|somuch that with all spéed the people ran to the place, and with such violence came vpon their enimies which were entred vpon the walles,The French|men are re|pelled. that streight|waies they slue manie of them, and chased the resi|due out of the ditches, so that they returned with blee|ding wounds to their campe, repenting them of their vnhappie enterprise, that turned them to such wo and greeuance.