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.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 As manie in the battell.In the middle ward, were assigned as manie per|sons, or more, as were in the formost battell, and the charge thereof was committed to the dukes of Bar and Alanson, the earles of Neuers, Uaudemont, Blamont, Salinges, Grant Prée, & of Russie. And in the rereward were all the other men of armes guided by the earles of Marle, Dampmartine, Fau|conberg, and the lord of Lourreie capteine of Arde, who had with him the men of the frontiers of Bolo|nois. Thus the Frenchmen being ordered vnder their standards and banners,The French esteemed six to [...] English. made a great shew: for suerlie they were estéemed in number six times as manie or more, than was the whole companie of the Englishmen, with wagoners, pages and all. They rested themselues, waiting for the bloudie blast of the terrible trumpet, till the houre betwéene nine and ten of the clocke of the same daie, during which sea|son, the constable made vnto the capteins and other men of warre a pithie oration, exhorting and incou|raging them to doo valiantlie, with manie comforta|ble words and sensible reasons. King Henrie also like a leader, and not as one led; like a souereigne, and not an inferior, perceiuing a plot of ground ve|rie strong & méet for his purpose, which on the backe halfe was sensed with the village, wherein he had lod|ged the night before, and on both sides defended with hedges and bushes, thought good there to imbattell his host, and so ordered his men in the same place, as he saw occasion, and as stood for his most aduan|tage.