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Compare 1577 edition: 1 There were within the towne of Pontoise at that time when it was thus taken by the Englishmen, a thousand lances, and two thousand arc [...]balisters, as Thomas Walsingham affirmeth, and of Englishmen and Gascoignes that went first foorth of Mante with the captau de Buef, not past fiftéene hundred, as Hall reporteth; although Enguerant de Monstrellet saith, they were about thrée thousand. But how manie soeuer they were, they durst not at the first, by reason of their small number (as may be thought) once di|uide themselues, or deale with booties, till about the houre of prime, that the duke of Clarence came to their aid with fiue thousand men, who much praising the valiantnesse of the earle and his retinue that had thus woone the towne, gaue to them the chéefe spoile of the which there was great plentie.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 Then went the duke foorth towards Paris,The duke o [...] Clarence s [...]|meth befo [...]e Paris [...] his armie. and comming thither, lodged before it two daies and two nights, without perceiuing anie proffer of issue to be made foorth against him by his enimies, and there|fore seeing they durst not once looke vpon him, he re|turned to Pontoise, for the taking of which towne the whole countrie of France, and speciallie the Pa|risians were sore dismaied: sith now there was no fortresse able to withstand the English puissance;The [...] spoile the [...] of France. for that the Irishmen ouerran all the Isle of France, did to the Frenchmen damages innumerable (as their writers affirme) brought dailie prcies to the English armie, burst vp houses, laid beds on the backes of the kine, rid vpon them, carried yoong children before them, and sold them to the English|men for slaues. These strange dooings so feared the Frenchmen within the territorie of Paris, and the countrie about, that the sorie people fled out of the villages with all their stuffe into the citie.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 The French king, and the duke of Burgognie li|eng at saint Denis, in this season, departed from thence with the quéene and hir daughter, and went to Trois in Champaigne, there to consult of their businesse, hauing left at Paris the earle of S. Paule, and the lord Lisle Adam, with a great puissance to defend the citie. The king of England immediatlie after that Pontoise was woone (as before yee haue heard) came thither in person, as well to giue order for the placing of a sufficient garrison there for de|fense thereof; as to proce [...]d further into the countrie for the getting of other townes and places: and so after he had well prouided for the good gouernment, & safe kéeping thereof, the eighteenth daie of August he departed out of the same with his maine armie.

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