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Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 In the meane time came the daie of the rescues of Yurie, which for want thereof was deliuered to the duke of Bedford by the capteine called Gerard de la Pallier, who presenting vnto the duke of Bed|ford the keies of the castell shewed him a letter also signed and sealed with the hands and seales of eigh|téene great lords, who the daie before promised by the tenour of the same letter to giue the duke battell, and to raise the siege.

Well (said the duke) if their hearts would haue serued, their puissance was suffi|cient once to haue proffered, or to haue performed this faithfull promise: but sith they disdaine to seeke me, God and saint George willing, I shall not de|sist to follow the tract of their horsses till one part of vs be by battell ouerthrowne.
And herewith he sent foorth the earle of Suffolke with six hundred horsse|men, to espie the dooings of the Frenchmen, and where they were lodged. The earle riding foorth, pas|sed by Dampuile, and came to Bretueill, where he heard certeine newes where the Frenchmen had gotten Uerneueill, and remained there still.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 These newes he sent by post vnto the duke of Bedford, the which incontinentlie vpon that aduer|tisement set forward in great hast towards his eni|mies. The Frenchmen hearing of his comming, set their people in arraie, and made all one maine bat|tell without fore ward or rere ward; and appointed foure hundred horssemen, Lombards and others to breake the arraie of the Englishmen, either behind,The ordering of their bat|tels. or at the sides, of the which was capteine sir Stephan de Uinoiles, called the Hire. The duke of Bedford likewise made one entier battell, and suffered no man to be on horssebacke, and set the archers (euerie one hauing a sharpe stake) both on the front of the battell, and also on the sides, like wings. And behind were all their horsses tied togither, either by the reins or by the tailes, with the carts and cariages, to the defense whereof were two thousand archers ap|pointed.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Héerewith either part being come almost to the ioining, the duke of Alanson, on the one side, exhorted his people to plaie the men, declaring vnto them, that the conclusion of this battell should either deli|uer them out of vile seruitude, or place them in the vale of bondage. On the other side, the duke of Bed|ford, to incourage his men, willed them to remem|ber how oft they had subdued those their aduersaries in battell (with whome they should now cope) for the most part, euer being the lesse number against the greater. Againe, he declared how necessarie it was to tame the [...]old attempts of the presumptuous Dolphin now in the beginning, least if the fire were suffered further to burne, it must haue néed of the more water to quench it.

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