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Compare 1577 edition: 1 In this luckie time also, no lesse occasion of victo|rie was offered to the Englishmen in an other part, if they could haue vsed it with such circumspect wari|nesse as had beene expedient. For Robert lord Wil|loughbie, and Matthew Or rather Goche. Saint Seue|rine besieged. Gough, a valiant Welsh|man, with fifteene hundred Englishmen, laid siege to a towne in Aniou called saint Seuerine. Whereof Charles the French king being aduertised, sent with all speed the lord Ambrose de Lore, with manie noble men to the succours of them within the towne, wher|of the same lord Ambrose was capteine: and there|fore made the more hast to releeue his deputie, and the other being streictlie besieged, but yet staied at the towne of Beaumont, till his whole power might come to him.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 The Englishmen aduertised of this intent of the capteine, came vpon him in the night, and found the Frenchmens watch so out of order, that a thousand men were entered into the campe before they were espied; by reason whereof the Englishmen found small resistance. But when the daie began to appeare, and that the sunne had set foorth his bright beames a|broad, that all things might be seene, the English|men giuen wholie to spoile, followed not their eni|mies in chase, but being contented with their preie and gaine, began to retreit toward the siege againe, which the lord Willoughbie still mainteined with a part of the armie.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 But sée the chance. The Frenchmen which were cõming after, hearing by the noise of the people that some fraie was at hand, put spurres to their horsses, and set on the Englishmen pestered with bag and baggage of the spoile and preie which they had got|ten in the French campe. The other of the French|men which before had fled, returned againe, and ai|ded their fellowes; so that the Englishmen being taken out of order, were compelled to flée, of whome Matthew Goche. Gough and diuerse other were taken pri|soners. And yet of the other part manie were slaine, and a great number taken: amongst whom was the lord de Lore, who (for all that the Frenchmen could doo) was kept, and not deliuered. The lord Willough|bie hearing of this mishap, raised his siege, and de|parted verie sore displeased in his mind, but could not remedie it.

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