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Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 They within the towne, being well furnished of all things necessarie for the defending of a siege, manfullie resisted the Englishmens inforcements, which spared not to deuise all waies and means how to approch the walles, and to batter the same with their great artil [...]erie, till at length they brought the Frenchmen to that extremitie, that they were con|tented to yéeld the towne on these conditions; that if by the thrée and twentith of Iune there came no suc|cour from the French king to raise the siege, the towne should be deliuered into the kings hands, the soldiers of the garrison should serue vnder the king for a time, and the townesmen should remaine in their dwellings as they did before, as subiects to the king:Louiers yel [...]ded vp. but the gunners that had discharged anie péece against the Englishmen should suffer death. When the daie came, and no aid appeared, the couenants were performed accordinglie. From thence went the king with all spéed vnto Pont de Larch, stand|ing vpon the riuer of Seine, eight miles aboue Rone towards Paris: he came thither about the seauen and twentith of Iune.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 When the Frenchmen which kept the passage there heard of the kings approach, they gathered togither a great number of men of warre, minding to de|fend the passage against him, appointing an other band of men (if they failed) to kéepe the further side of the bridge; and to watch, that neither by boate nor vessell he should come ouer the riuer by anie maner of meanes. At his comming néere to the towne, he perceiued that it was not possible to passe by the bridge without great losse of his people, and therfore he retired almost a mile backeward, where, in a plea|sant and commodious place by the riuer side he pit|ched his campe, and in the night season, what with boates and barges, and what with hogsheads and pipes,The English armie passeth the riuer of Seine. he conueied ouer the broad riuer of Seine a great companie of his soldiers, without anie resi|stance made by his enimies. For they which were on the hither side of Seine, thinking that the English|men had gone to winne some other place, followed them not, but studied how to defend their towne, which was inough for them to doo.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 And to put the French men in doubt, least the Englishmen should séeke passage somewhere else, the king appointed certeine of the soldiers which had skill in swimming,A good [...] to go to a place thrée miles from the siege by the riuer side, and there to enter into the water, making great clamor and noise, as though they had meant to haue passed; but they had in com|mandement not to trauerse past halfe the riuer, so to procure the Frenchmen to make thitherwards, whilest the king in one place, and his brother the duke of Clarence in another, got ouer their men, and that in such number, before the Frenchmen had anie vn|derstanding thereof, that when they made towards them, and perceiued that they were not able to in|counter them, they fled backe, and durst not abide the English footmen, which would faine haue beene doo|ing with them.

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