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duke of Glocester had beheld so faire and chosen a power of men of warre, they were streight|waies appointed
to get them on shipbrood, & so being imbarked, the whole nauie passed foorth to the Thams mouth,
where they staied to watch for the fléet of Flanders, that was readie to come from Rochell with wines. At
length, vpon a sundaie, being the e|uen of the Annuntiation of our ladie, the Flemish fleet was discouered a
good way off, by one that was mounted into one of the tops of a ship of the Eng|lish fléet. The earle of
Arundell greatlie reioising at those newes, foorthwith with his whole fléet made to the sea. When the
Flemings approched neere to our nauie, they made saile, as if they would set vpon the same;A good p [...]|licie. and our men of purpose made countenance as if they would haue retired, as
mistrusting them|selues to be able to match their aduersaries,
A great vic|torie of the English na|uie against the Flemish fléet.
Ia. Meir. Tho. Walsi.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 There were taken fourescore ships, with diuerse capteins and men of armes, namelie their chiefe ad|merall, named Iohn Buicke, a perfect good seaman, and one that had aforetime doone much hurt to the English nation. Diuerse of their ships were bouged, and some escaped from the battell. But the earle of Arundell pursued them so egerlie for the space of two daies togither, that at length he tooke them, and brought them backe to his nauie, so that what in the battell and in the chase, there were taken of great and small, to the number of an hundred vessels, all fraught with wines, so that there was found aboord the same nine thousand tuns, Ia. Meir. Thom. Wals. or rather (as other saie) ninetéene thousand, which togither with the ves|sels were streight sent vnto Orwell hauen, and to o|ther hauens abroad in the realme, beside that which fell to the kings share, as due to him by his preroga|tiue. Part of the Flemish fléet escaping (as before ye haue heard) was pursued vnto the hauen of Sluis and Blankerke.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 The citizens of Middleburgh came to the earle, and requested him that they might buie those wines of him, and paie for the same after the rate of an hun|dred shillings the tunne, alledging how they were the kings fréends, and stood in néed of wines: but the earle of Arundell, thinking it more reason that those which had borne the charges of his iournie, to wit, the commons of the realme of England should haue the commoditie thereof than any other, he denied their sute.The liberali|tie of the earle of Arundell. But yet to shew them some plea [...]re as his fréends, he gaue them twentie tuns to make mer|rie with. As for that which fell to the earles share, he vsed such bountifulnesse in bestowing it among his fréends, that he left not to himselfe so much as one tunne. He wan therefore no small praise, that forbea|ring his owne commoditie, which he might haue rea|ped in selling those wines to strangers, he had more regard to the profit of the commons, whereby they might vnderstand, that that which they had laid foorth towards the setting forward of his iournie, was not altogither lost nor cast awaie. By this meanes (be|sides the commendation which he drew to himselfe) he also wan the harts & good will of the people, whose freendship is purchased by gifts and good déeds, sith they make profit the metrod of amitie, & bound in be|neuolence with receiued benefits, as the poet saith,
Vulgus amicitias vtilitate probat.