Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 The cardinall of Piergort the popes legat, as then li [...]ng in the citie of Poictiers,The cardinal of Piergort. came that morning to the king, and required him to absteine from battell, till he might vnderstand whether the prince would condescend vnto such conditions of peace as he him|selfe should thinke reasonable, which if it might be brought to passe, the same should be more honorable for him, than to aduenture so manie noble men as were there with him at that present in hazard of bat|tell. The king was contented that the cardinall should go to the prince, and see what he could doo with him.The prince of Wales con|tented to come to a treatie. The cardinall rode to the prince, and talked with him till he was contented to come to a freatie. The cardinall returned to the French king, and required of him that a truce might be granted till the next daies sun-rising: which truce obteined, he spent that daie in riding to and fro betwixt them.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 The prince offered to render into the kings hands all that he had woone in that voiage,The offer [...] the prince of Wales. as well townes as castels, and also to release all the prisoners, which he or any of his men had taken in that iournie: and further he was contented to haue béene sworne not to beare armour against the French king within the terme of seuen yeares next following. But the French king would not agree therevnto:The French kings pre|sumptuous demand. the vtter|most that he would agree vnto, was this, that the prince and an hundred of his knights should yéeld themselues as prisoners vnto him, otherwise he would not haue the matter taken vp. But it was the French kings hap after (notwithstanding his hau|tines) to be taken captiue, as Okland noteth, saieng,

—seruilia sub iuga missus

Disceret vt domino regi parêre Britanno.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 The Englishmen were not idle,The English men fortifie their campe. whilest the cardi|nall was thus in hand to bring the parties to some good agréement, but cast great ditches, and made hed|ges, and other fortifications about the place where their archers stood, and on the next morning, being mondaie, the prince and his people prepared them|selues to receiue battell, as they had doone before, ha|uing passed the day before and that night in great defect of necessarie things, for they could not stir a|broad to fetch forrage or other prouisions without danger to be surprised of their enimies. The cardi|nall came againe earlie in the morning vnto the French king, and found the French armie readie in order of battell by that time the sunne was vp, and though he eftsoones fell in hand to exhort the king to an agréement, yet it would not be. So he went to the prince,The cardinal trauelled in vaine. and declared to him how he could doo no good in the matter, and therefore he must abide the hazard of battell for ought that he could sée: wherewith the prince was content, and so the cardinall returned vn|to Poic [...]iers.