Compare 1577 edition: 1 Here we may not forget how the French thus in their iolitie, Hall. sent an herald to king Henrie, to inquire what ransome he would offer. Wherevnto he an|swered, that within two or thrée houres he hoped it would so happen, that the Frenchmen should be glad to common rather with the Englishmen for their ransoms, than the English to take thought for their deliuerance, promising for his owne part, that his dead carcasse should rather be a prize to the Frenchmen, than that his liuing bodie should paie anie ransome. When the messenger was come backe to the French host, the men of warre put on their hel|mets, and caused their trumpets to blow to the bat|tell. They thought themselues so sure of victorie, that diuerse of the noble men made such hast towards the battell, that they left manie of their seruants and men of warre behind them, and some of them would not once staie for their standards: as amongst other the duke of Brabant when his standard was not come, caused a baner to be taken from a trumpet and fastened to a speare, the which he commanded to be borne before him in stéed of his standard.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 But when both these armies comming within danger either of other, set in full order of battell on both sides, they stood still at the first, beholding either others demeanor, being not distant in sunder past thrée bow shoots. And when they had on both parts thus staied a good while without dooing anie thing, (except that certeine of the French horsemen aduan|cing forwards, betwixt both the hosts, were by the English archers constreined to returne backe) aduise was taken amongst the Englishmen, what was best for them to doo. Therevpon all things considered, it was determined, that sith the Frenchmen would not come forward, the king with his armie imbat|telled (as yee haue hard) should march towards them, and so leauing their trusse and baggage in the village where they lodged the night before, onelie with their weapons, armour, and stakes prepared for the pur|pose, as yée haue heard.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 These made somewhat forward, before whome there went an old knight sir Thomas Erpingham (a man of great experience in the warre) with a war|der in his hand;The English gaue the on|set. and when he cast vp his warder, all the armie shouted, but that was a signe to the ar|chers in the medow, which therwith shot wholie alto|gither at the vauward of the Frenchmen, who when they perceiued the archers in the medow,The two ar|mies ioine battell. and saw they could not come at them for a ditch that was be|twixt them, with all hast set vpon the fore ward of king Henrie, but yer they could ioine, the archers in the forefront, and the archers on that side which stood in the medow, so wounded the footmen, galled the horsses, and combred the men of armes, that the foot|men durst not go forward, the horssemen ran togi|ther vpõ plumps without order, some ouerthrew such as were next them, and the horsses ouerthrew their masters, and so at the first ioining, the Frenchmen were foulie discomforted, and the Englishmen high|lie incouraged.