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Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 The Englishmen and the Gascoignes hearing horsses to come galloping after them, turned, and per|ceiuing them to be their enimies, stood still to abide them.A skirmish. The Frenchmen couragiouslie gaue the charge, and the Englishmen as valiantlie defended them, so that there insued a great skirmish, which con|tinued a long while, so that it could not be easilie iud|ged who had the better, nor on which side the fortu|nate issue of the present conflict would then fall (for

—mutabilis alea Martis)
till that the battell of the English marshals appro|ched, the which when the Frenchmen saw comming by a wood side,The French|men fled. they fled streightwaies towards Re|morentine, and the Englishmen followed in chase so fast as their horsses might beare them, and entered the towne with the Frenchmen: but the French lords and the one halfe of their companie got into the castell, and so saued themselues.The prince lodgeth in the towne of Re|morentine. The prince hearing what had happened, came into the towne, and there lodged that night, sending sir Iohn Chandois to talke with the capiteines of the castell, to know if they would yeeld: and bicause they refused so to doo, on the next morrow he caused his people to giue an assault to the place, which continued the most part of the day, but yet missing their purpose, he commanded that they should draw to their lodgings, and rest them for that night.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 4 In the morning as soone as the sunne was vp,The castell of Remorentine assaulted. the marshals caused the trumpets to sound, and those that were appointed to giue the assault againe, prepa|red themselues to it. The prince himselfe was present personallie at this assault, so that the same was in|forced to the vttermost: but when they saw that by assaults they could not win the castell, they deuised engines,It is set on fier. wherewith they cast wild fire into the base court, and so set it on fire, which increased in such ve|hement sort, that it tooke into the couering of a great tower, which was couered with reed: and then they within perceiuing they must either yeeld or perish with fire,They with [...] submitted themselues. came downe and submitted themselues to the prince, who as prisoners receiued them. The castell of Remorentine being thus woone and defaced with fire, the prince left it void, and marched foorth with his armie as before, destroieng the countrie, and ap|proched to Aniou and Touraine.The French king foloweth the prince of Wales. The French king came forwards toward the prince, and at Ambois heard how the prince was in Touraine, meaning to returne through Poictow. He was dailie aduertised of the princes dooings by such as were appointed to coast him euer in his iournie.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 Then came the king to Haie in Touraine, and his people were passed the riuer of Loire at sundrie pas|sages, Froissard. Seuen thou|sand chosen men saith Tho. Walsi. where most conuenientlie they might. They were in number twentie thousand men of armes; of noble men there were six and twentie, dukes and earles, beside a great number of other lords and ba|rons: the foure sonnes of the king were there, as the lord Charles duke of Normandie, the lord Lewes af|ter duke of Aniou, the lord Iohn after duke of Ber|rie, and the lord Philip which was after duke of Bur|gongne. The French king doubting least the prince should escape by spéedie iournies out of his countrie, before he could come to giue him battell, remooued to Chauuignie;Chauuignie. and there passed the riuer of Creuse by the bridge, supposing that the Englishmen had beene before him, but they were not. Some of the French|men taried behind at Chauuignie for one night, and in the morning followed the king. They were about two hundred men of armes vnder the leading of the lord Craon, the lord Raoull de Coucie, and the earle of Ioignie. They chanced to incounter with cer|teine of the auaunt currours of the English armie, which remooued that day from a little village fast by. Those Englishmen were not past three score men of armes, but well horssed, and therefore perceiuing the great number of the Frenchmen, they fled towards the princes battell, which they knew was not farre off. Capteins of the Englishmen were two knights EEBO page image 388 of Heinault, the lord Eustace Dambreticourt, and the lord Iohn of Guistelles.

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