Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 The French king, after the yeelding of Tartas, re|mooued to saint Seuerine, which towne he tooke by force, slue thrée hundred persons, and tooke sir Tho|mas Rampston prisoner. After this, he came to the citie of Arques, tooke a bulworke by force, and had the towne yéelded to him by composition. The cap|teine, which was the lord of Montferrant, departed with all the English crue to Burdeaux, where he found the earle of Longuile, the Capdau de Beufe, and sir Thomas Rampston, which was a little before deliuered. After this, the fortresses of the Rioll and Mermandie were also yéelded to the French king: who notwithstanding at length was constreined for lacke of vittels (which were cut off by the English|men, that laie abroad in diuerse fortresses for the pur|pose) to breake vp his armie, & to retire into France. And then after his departure,The change in warre. the Englishmen reco|uered againe the citie of Arques, & the other townes by the French king gained, and tooke prisoner his lieutenant called Reginald Guilliam the Burgog|nion, and manie other gentlemen, and all the meane souldiers were either slaine or hanged.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 While the French king was in Guien,The lord Talbot. the lord Talbot tooke the towne of Couchet, and after mar|ched toward Galliardon, which was besieged by the bastard of Orleance, otherwise called the earle of Dunois: which earle hearing of the lord Talbots approch, raised his siege, and saued himselfe. The Frenchmen a little before this season,The earle of Dunois. An excellent finesse in warre. had taken the towne of Eureux by treason of a fisher. Sir Fran|cis the Arragonois hearing of that chance, apparel|led six strong fellowes, like men of the countrie, with sacks and baskets, as cariers of corne and vittels, and sent them to the castell of Cornill, in the which diuerse Englishmen were kept as prisoners, and he EEBO page image 620 with an ambush of Englishmen laie in a vallie nigh to the fortresse.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 The six counterfet husbandmen entered the castell vnsuspected, and streight came to the chamber of the capteine, & laieng hands on him, gaue knowledge to them that laie in ambush to come to their aid. The which suddenlie made foorth, and entered the castell, slue and tooke all the Frenchmen, and set the Eng|lishmen at libertie: which thing doone, they set fire in the castell, and departed to Rone with their bootie and prisoners. This exploit they had not atchiued per|aduenture by force (as happilie they mistrusted) and therefore by subtiltie and deceit sought to accomplish it, which meanes to vse in warre is tollerable, so the same warre be lawfull; though both fraud & bloud|shed otherwise be forbidden euen by the instinct of nature to be put in practise and vse; and that dooth the poet insinuat in a proper sententious verse, saieng:

Fraus absit, vacuas caedis habete manus.