Compare 1577 edition: 1 After this ouerthrow obteined, the French king assembled an armie roiall, and comming before Ca|en,Caen besieged and yéelded to y^e French. besieged it on all sides: and after making his ap|proches, fiercelie assalted the walles. But the duke of Summerset, and the other capteins within the towne, manfullie withstood their enimies, shewing both force and great policie in defending and beat|ing backe the assailants. The French king, percei|uing he could not preuaile that waie, sent for all his great ordinance to Paris, which being brought, he dailie shot at the wals, and did some hurt: but to the castell which stood on a rocke, and in it a dungeon vn|able to be beaten downe, he did no harme at all.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Though the duke of Summerset was the kings lieutenant, yet sir Dauid Hall, as capteine of this towne for his maister the duke of Yorke owner ther|of, tooke vpon him the chéefe charge. Sir Robert Uéer was capteine of the castell, and sir Henrie Radford capteine of the dungeon. Dailie the shot was great, but more terrible than hurtfull: sauing on a daie a stone shot into the towne, fell betweene the duchesse of Summerset, and hir children, which being ama|zed with this chance, besought hir husband kneeling on hir knées, to haue mercie and compassion of his small infants, and that they might be deliuered out of the towne in safegard. Which intretie made with teares and submission, what eare could but listen to, what heart but yerne at; vnlesse both eare and heart were made of flint or marble, or hewen out of a hard rocke, and so void of all passions, of all remorse, of all affections belonging to humanitie?

Compare 1577 edition: 1 The duke pitifull, mooued with the sorrow of his wife, and loue of his children, rendered the towne a|gainst the mind of sir Dauid Hall, whose counsell and faithfull diligence (in acquiting himselfe to an|swer the trust committed to him by his maister) if others had followed; the French had susteined more trauell and losse, yer they should haue so easilie at|teined their purpose. The conditions of the surrender were, that the duke of Summerset and his might de|part in safegard with all their goods and substance. Sir Dauid Hall with diuerse of his trustie freends departed to Chierburgh, and from thence sailed into Ireland to the duke of Yorke,The irrecon|ciliable hate betwéene the two dukes. making relation to him of all these dooings, which thing kindled so great a rancor in the dukes heart and stomach, that he neuer left persecuting the duke of Summerset, vntill he had brought him to his fatall end & confusion. Such is the nature of rancor and malice, of wrath and an|ger, which furthereth the hands euen of weaklings, on them to wreake their teene, with whome they are offended & pricked to reuengment, as the poet saith:

Quaslibet infirmas adiuuat ira manus.