Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 Also vpon the thursdaie within the same octaues, foure hundred Frenchmen that were entered with|in the suburbes of Eureux were repelled by eleuen Englishmen, that tooke foure of those Frenchmen prisoners, siue twelue of them, and tooke fortie hors|ses. On the saturdaie following, the Frenchmen tooke in hand to steale vpon them that laie in garri|son within Louiers, in hope to surprise the towne earlie in the morning: but the capteine perceiuing their purpose, sallied foorth with a hundred of his men, and putting the Frenchmen to flight, being a thou|sand, tooke an hundred and fourescore of them being all gentlemen. But to returne to them before Rone. The siege thus continuing from Lammas, almost to Christmas, diuerse enterprises were attempted, and diuerse policies practised, how euerie part might in|damage his aduersaries: no parte greatlie reioised of their gaine. But in the meane time vittels began sore to faile them within, that onelie vineger and water serued for drinke.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 If I should rehearse (according to the report of di|uerse writers) how déerelie dogs, rats, mise,Extreame fa|mine within Rone. and cats were sold within the towne, and how greedilie they were by the poore people eaten and deuoured, and how the people dailie died for fault of food, and yoong infants laie sucking in the stréets on their moothers breasts, lieng dead, starued for hunger; the reader might lament their extreme miseries. A great num|ber of poore sillie creaturs were put out at the gates, which were by the Englishmen that kept the tren|ches beaten and driuen backe againe to the same gates, which they found closed and shut against them. And so they laie betweene the wals of the citie and the trenches of the enimies, still crieng for helpe and reléefe, for lacke whereof great numbers of them dai|lie died.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Howbeit, king Henrie mooued with pitie, vpon Christmasse daie, in the honor of Christes Natiuitie,A vertuous and charita|ble prince. refreshed all the poore people with vittels, to their great comfort and his high praise: yet if the duke of Burgognies letters had not béene conueied into the citie, it was thought they within would neuer haue made resistance so long time as they did; for by those letters they were assured of rescue to come. Diuerse lords of France hauing written to them to the like effect, they were put in such comfort herewith, that immediatlie, to expresse their great reioising, all the bels in the citie were roong foorth chéerefullie, which during all the time of the siege till that present had kept silence. In déed by reason of a faint kind of a|gréement procured betwixt the Dolphin and the duke of Burgognie, it was thought verelie that a power should haue béene raised for preseruation of that noble citie, the loosing or sauing thereof being a mat|ter of such importance.