Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 The French king being informed that the king of England ment to laie siege vnto Tournie, Froissard. Tournie fur|nished with a strong power of men. as it was indeed deuised at this councell holden at Uille|fort, tooke order for the furnishing thereof with men, munition, and vittels in most defensible wise. There were sent to that towne the best men of warre in all France, as the earle of Ewe constable of France, the yoong earle of Guines his sonne, the earle of Foiz and his brethren, the earle Amerie de Narbon, with manie other, hauing with them foure thousand souldiers. Sir Godmar du Foie was there before as capteine of the towne, so that it was prouided of all things necessarie. Howbeit, the king of England (according as it was appointed at the councell hol|den at Uillefort, about the feast of Marie Magdalen) departed from Gaunt, and came to Tournie, hauing with him seauen earles of his owne countrie, as Darbie, Penbroke, Hereford, Huntingdon, North|ampton, Glocester, and Arundell, eight prelats, eight and twentie baronets,Tournie be|sieged. two hundred knights, foure thousand men of armes, and nine thousand archers, besides other footmen. He lodged at the gate called saint Martine, in the waie that is toward Lisle and Dowaie.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Anon after came the dukes of Brabant and Gel|derland, the earle of Gulike, the marquesse of Blan|queburgh, the marquesse of Musse, the earls of Ber|gen, Sauines, and Heinault: also Iaques Arteueld, who brought with him about fortie thousand Fle|mings.The great number of peo+ple at the siege of Tournie. Ia. Meir. So that there was at this siege to the num|ber of six score thousand men, as some writers af|firme. There was also an other armie of Flemings, as of the townes of Ypres, Popringue, Furnes, Cassell, of the Chateleinie, & of Bergis, being to the number of fortie thousand, appointed to make warre against the Frenchmen that kept saint Omers, and other townes there on the frontiers of Arthois, which armie was led by the earle of Richmond, otherwise called the lord Robert Dartois, and by sir Henrie de Flanders,The earle of Richmond. the which approching one day to saint O|mers, were sharplie fought with; for within saint O|mers at that time laie a strong power of French|men with the duke of Burgoine, the earle of Armi|nacke and others.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 The Flemings were not willing to serue, for nei|ther had they any trust in their capteine the said erle of Richmond, neither would they willinglie haue passed out of their owne confines, but onlie to defend the same from the inuasion of their enimies: yet through much persuasion, forward they went, diui|ded into sundrie battels contrarie to their manner. The enimies perceiuing some aduantage,The French|men set vpon y^e Flemings. issued forth vpon them, and assailed them verie stoutlie, insomuch that the earle of Arminacke setting vpon them of Ypres, ouerthrew them, and chased them vnto a towne called Arques, which they had a little before set on fire and burned. An other companie of French|men, skirmishing with them of Franks, Furnes, and Bergis, put them also to the worse. Contrarilie, those Frenchmen that encountered with the lord Robert Dartois, and them of Bruges whome he led,The variable fortune of fights. susteined great losse, and were beaten backe into the citie:Additions to Adam Meri|muth. the duke of Burgoine himselfe being in no small danger for a time, so sharpe the bickering was betwixt them, and the euent so variable. Wherefore it is notablie and fitlie said in this behalfe, that

—incerti fallax fiducia Martis.Sil. Ital. lib. 6.