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Compare 1577 edition: 1 In which meane while, the earle of Suffolke was sent foorth to discouer the countrie, and the king wan by assault the towne of Baugencie, and after when vittels began to faile, he marched forward, meaning to pursue the Dolphin.King [...] pursueth the Dolphin But the Dolphin douting the English puissance, conueied all the vittels foorth of those quarters, and retired himselfe to Burges in Berrie, choosing that place as his first refuge, & there|fore determined there to remaine, till fortune tur|ning EEBO page image 581 hir whéele, shuld looke on them with a more fauo|rable countenance,The Dol|phin, why cal|led king of Berrie. hereof in scorne was he com|monlie called king of Berrie. The king of Eng|land followed, till vittels and forrage began [...]ore to faile on all sides, and then returning, passed towards Orleance, taking the castell of Rouge Mont by as|sault.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 He staied thrée daies before Orleance, and from thence, for want of vittels, marched through Gasti|nois, till he came to Uignie sur Yonne, where he re|mained for a season, to refresh his people that were sore trauelled, Titus Liuius. in that painefull passed iournie: in which the king lost not onelie manie of his men for lacke of vittels, but also a great number of horsses and carriages. Some haue written, that about the same time, he should win the citie of Sens, other|wise called the kings new towne by surrender; but after he had remained for a time at Uignie, Les histories des ducz de Normandie. we find that he remoued to Paris, where he was honorablie receiued. Abr. Fl. ¶For he came among them as one hauing empire and dominion in his hand, so that to him they were no lesse forward in submission for feare of his indignation, than readie to giue him all the inter|teinement that they could deuise for the keeping of his fauour: the lacke whereof they knew stood with the hazard of their safetie, as the contrarie tended to their welfare.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Shortlie after, considering with himselfe that the towne of Meaux in Brie, being replenished with e|nimies, was not to be suffered to remaine in that state, in the middes of his new gotten subiects; he de|termined to take awaie the open scruple that might poison and infect the members, dwelling hard by: wherefore with a great number of earles and barons in his companie, he came to besiege it. This towne was no lesse well vittelled than manned, and no bet|ter manned than fortified; so that the king could nei|ther haue it to him deliuered at his pleasure, nor gaine it by assault, without the great losse of his peo|ple: yet neuerthelesse, he determined not to depart, till he had got it by one meane or other. The riuer of Marne diuided this towne into two parts, so that there was no enterie from the one into the other, but by a bridge, raised vp, and made ouer the riuer, sustei|ned with manie arches. The one part is called the ci|tie, and the other la March, being the strongest and best fortified.The strong towne of Me|aux besieged by the Eng|lishmen. The king first lodged a mile off in a ca|stell, and sent the duke of Excester to begin the siege, which he did, according to his instructions, vpon the sixt of October.

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