Compare 1577 edition: 1 The prince of Wales, perceiuing how his enimies (for the more part of them) were fleeing awaie as men discomfited, sent out his horssemen as well on the one hand as on the other, and he himselfe with his whole power of footmen rushed foorth, and manfullie assailed the maine battell of the Frenchmen, where the king himselfe was, Froissard. The valian|cie of the French king. who like a valiant prince would not flee, but fought right manfullie: so that if the fourth part of his men had doo [...]e halfe their parts as he did his, the victorie by likelihood had rested (as Froissard saith) on his side: but he was forsaken of his three sonnes, and of his brother the duke of Orle|ance, which fled out of the battell with cleare hands. Finallie, after huge slaughter made of those noble|men, and other which abode with him euen to the end, he was taken, and so likewise was his yongest sonne Philip,The French king taken. and both put in great danger to haue béene murthered after they were taken, by the English|men and Gascoignes, striuing who should haue the king to his prisoner, where in déed a knight of Flan|ders or rather Artois, borne in saint Omers, called sir Denise Morbecke, tooke him, Ia. Meit. Sir Denise Morbecke. Froissard. but he was straight|waies taken from the same sir Denise by other that came in the meane season, better prouided (béelike) of strength, and lead him awaie vnresisted.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 There were slaine in this battell, of noblemen, the dukes of Burbon and Athens,Noblemen slaine. the marshall Clere|mont, sir Geffrey Charnie that bare the chéefe stan|dert of France, the bishop of Chaalons, sir Eustace de Ribaumont, with diuerse other to the number of eight hundred lords, knights, Ia. Meir. and gentlemen of name. In all there died on the French part six thou|sand of one and other. Polydor. The chase. The chase was continued euen to the gates of Poictiers, and manie slaine and bea|ten downe in the stréet before the gates, which the ci|tizens had closed, for doubt least the Englishmen should enter with them that fled thither for safegard. There were taken beside the king and his sonne, the lord Iaques de Burbon earle of Ponthieu, Froissard. Annales de France. brother to the duke of Burbon that was slaine there, the erle of Ew, the lord Charles his brother earle of Long|uile, the archbishop of Sens, the earles of Uandosme, Salesbruch, Uentadore, Tankeruille, Estampes, and Dampmartine:Archembald Douglas tak [...] Iacob. Meir. also Archembald Dowglas a noble man of Scotland, sonne to the honorable lord William Dowglas that was killed in Spaine, the marshall Dandrehen or Odenhen (as Iacobus Meir saith) with others to the number of seuenteene hundred earles, lords, knights, and gentlemen,Prisoners taken. be|side those of the meaner sort; so that the Englishmen had EEBO page image 390 had twise as manie prisoners as they themselues were in number: and therefore it was deuised amongst them, to put the most part of their prisoners to ransome there in the field, and so they did for doubt of further danger, the multitude being so great as it was.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 Thus was the prince of Wales victor in that no|table battell fought in the fields of [...] and Malpertuse, two leagues from [...], the nine|teenth day of September being monday,The battell of Po [...]ctiers when it was. in the yéere [...] all his men togither. It was almost night yet they were all returned from the chase. The prince made a great supper in his lodging that night to the French king,The prince suppeth the prisoners. and to the most part of his nobles that there taken prisoners, and did all the honour that he could deuise to the king. And where he perceiued by his chéere and countenance, that his heart was full of pensiue greéfe, carefull thought and heauinesse, he comforted him in the best maner that he might, and said to him: as followeth.