Compare 1577 edition: 1 But when the outcrie of the lackies and boies, which ran awaie for feare of the Frenchmen thus spoiling the campe, came to the kings eares, he doub|ting least his enimies should gather togither againe and begin a new field; and mistrusting further that the prisoners would be an aid to his enimies, or the verie enimies to their takers in déed if they were suf|fered to liue, contrarie to his accustomed gentlenes, commanded by sound of trumpet, that euerie man (vpon paine of death) should incontinentlie slaie his prisoner. When this dolorous decree,All the pris [...]ners slaine. and pitifull pro|clamation was pronounced, pitie it was to sée how some Frenchmen were suddenlie sticked with dag|gers, some were brained with pollaxes, some slaine with malls, other had their throats cut, and some their bellies panched, so that in effect, hauing respect to the great number, few prisoners were saued.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 When this lamentable slaughter was ended, the EEBO page image 555 Englishmen disposed themselues in order of battell, readie to abide a new field, and also to inuade, and newlie set on their enimies, with great force they as|sailed the earles of Marle and Fauconbridge, and the lords of Louraie,A fresh onset. and of Thine, with six hundred men of armes, who had all that daie kept togither, but now slaine and beaten downe out of hand. ¶ Some write, that the king perceiuing his enimies in one part to assemble togither, as though they meant to giue a new battell for preseruation of the prisoners, sent to them an herald, commanding them either to depart out of his sight, or else to come forward at once, and giue battell: promising herewith, that if they did offer to fight againe,A right wise and valiant challenge of the king. not onelie those priso|ners which his people alreadie had taken; but also so manie of them as in this new conflict, which they thus attempted should fall into his hands, should die the death without redemption.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 The Frenchmen fearing the sentence of so terrible a decrée, without further delaie parted out of the field. And so about foure of the clocke in the after noone, the king when he saw no apperance of enimies, caused the retreit to be blowen; and gathering his armie to|gither, gaue thanks to almightie God for so happie a victorie,Thanks gi|uen to God for the victo|rie. causing his prelats and chapleins to sing this psalme: In exitu Israel de Aegypto, and comman|ded euerie man to knéele downe on the ground at this verse: Non nobis Domine, non nobis, sed nomini tuo da gloriam. A worthie example of a godlie prince. Which doone, he caused Te Deum, with cer|teine anthems to be soong, giuing land and praise to God, without boasting of his owne force or anie humane power. That night he and his people tooke rest, Titus Liuius. and refreshed themselues with such victuals as they found in the French campe, but lodged in the same village where he laie the night before.