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Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 There was not one amongst them that knew any certeine place whither to go, in that vnknowne countrie: but by chance they happened vpon a bea|ten waie, white in sight; by the which they were brought vnto a little village, where they were refre|shed with meat and drinke somewhat more plenti|ouslie than they had béene diuerse daies before. Or|der was taken by commandement from the king after the armie was first set in battell arraie, that no noise or clamor should be made in the host; so that in marching foorth to this village, euerie man kept him|selfe quiet: but at their comming into the village, fiers were made to giue light on euerie side, as there likewise were in the French host, which was incam|ped not past two hundred and fiftie pases distant from the English. The cheefe leaders of the French host were these: the constable of France, the mar|shall, the admerall, the lord Rambures maister of the crosbowes, and other of the French nobilitie, which came and pitched downe their standards and ban|ners in the countie of saint Paule,The number of the French mẽ threé [...] thousand. Engueran [...]. within the terri|torie of Agincourt, hauing in their armie (as some write) to the number of thréescore thousand horsse|men, besides footmen, wagoners and other.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 They were lodged euen in the waie by the which the Englishmen must needs passe towards Calis, and all that night after their comming thither, made great cheare and were verie merie, pleasant, and full of game. The Englishmen also for their parts were of good comfort, and nothing abashed of the matter, and yet they were both hungrie, wearie, sore trauel|led, and vexed with manie cold diseases. Howbeit re|conciling themselues with God by hoossell and shriff, requiring assistance at his hands that is the onelie giuer of victorie, they determined rather to die, than to yéeld, or flée. The daie following was the fiue and twentith of October in the yeare 1415,The battell of Agincourt, the 25 of Oc|tober 1415. being then fridaie, and the feast of Crispine and Crispini|an, a day faire and fortunate to the English, but most sorrowfull and vnluckie to the French.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 EEBO page image 553In the morning, the French capteins made thrée battels,The order of the French armie. in the vaward were eight thousand healmes of knights and esquiers, foure thousand archers, and fifteene hundred crosbowes which were guided by the lord de la Breth, constable of France, hauing with him the dukes of Orleance and Burbon, the earles of Ewe and Richmond, the marshall Bouci|quault, and the maister of the crosbowes, the lord Dampier admerall of France, and other capteins. The earle of Uandosme with sixtéene hundred men of armes were ordered for a wing to that battell. And the other wing was guided by sir Guichard Dolphine, sir Clugnet of Brabant, and sir Lewes Bourdon, with eight hundred men of armes, of elect chosen persons. And to breake the shot of the Eng|lishmen, were appointed sir Guilliam de Saueuses, with Hector and Philip his brethren, Ferrie de Mail|lie, and Alen de Gaspanes, with other eight hundred of armes.

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