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.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 There be that write, that this fight continued from thrée of the clocke till euentide, and that the earle of Richmond was twise put to flight, for his people did leaue him in the plaine field: but at length by the ad|uise of sir Thomas Uthred,Sir Thomas Uthred. whome the king of Eng|land had appointed to attend the said earle, with ma|nie Englishmen and archers, he assembled his peo|ple eftsoones togither againe, and setting on his eni|mies. Now when it was almost night, neere to the gates of saint Omers, he finallie ouercame them, where were slaine of the French part fiftéene barons and fourescore knights, beside a great number of o|ther people. Diuerse also were slaine on the earle of Richmonds part at this last encounter, and among other an English knight, that bare armes escheeked siluer and gules.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Finallie, as the earle of Richmond returned to|wards his campe, which laie in the vale of Cassell, he met with certeine Artesines and Frenchmen, which had béene chasing the other Flemings, and though it was late in the euening, that one could not take good view of an other, yet here they fought againe, and so diuerse of the Frenchmen were taken and killed, and amongst other that were caught, was a knight of Burgoine, named sir William de Nillie. But when the earle of Richmond and those that were with him came to the place where the campe laie, they found that all the residue of the Flemings were fled and gone. And when the said earle came to Cassell,The earle of Richmond in danger to be slaine. the people were readie to haue slaine him, their for|mer malice towards him being now much increased EEBO page image 360 with the euill successe of this passed enterprise, so that he was glad to get him thence, and to repaire vnto king Edward, that laie yet at the siege before Tour|nie, during which siege manie proper feats of armes were doone betwixt those within and them without: for few daies passed without the atchiuing of some enterprise.