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Compare 1577 edition: 1 In all this armie was there not one page. The king of England was at his ariuall highlie displea|sed with the duke of Burgognie, who in the word of a prince had promised to meet him at his landing, with two thousand men of armes and light horsse|men, besides a great number of lanceknights and halberdiers, and that he would haue begun the war three moneths before the kings transporting; where|as contrarilie the duke laie lingering at the siege of Nusse,The siege of Nusse. and let passe the occasion of atchiuing a more profitable enterprise. King Edward incontinentlie dispatched the lord Scales in post vnto the duke, to put him in remembrance of his promise,The lord Scales. and to ad|uise him to come and ioine with him before the sum|mer were spent.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Before king Edward departed from Douer, he sent an officer of armes vnto the French king with a defiance. The French king,A defiance sent to the French king. receiuing the king of Englands letters at the messengers hand, read the same; and after he had considered thereof at leasure, he called the English herald aside, and to him decla|red the little trust that was to be put in the duke of Burgognie and the constable, by whose procurement he knew that king Edward was procured to come at that season into France; and therefore it should be better for him to haue peace with an old enimie, than to staie vpon the promises and familiaritie of a new dissembling freend, which peace did highlie please God, & was the thing that he most desired. ¶ But to giue the greater grace to the matter in hand, Abr. Fl. ex Edw. Hall. fol. Ccxxvij. it is good to laie downe the forme of the French kings spéech to the said herald, to whome he vttered these words in his wardrobe, as Edward Hall reporteth.

Sir I know and well wot, that the king of Eng|land your maister, is neither descended in these parts of his owne frée motion, nor yet of vs required; but onelie entised and prouoked by the duke of Burgog|nie, and somewhat inforced by the commons of his realme. But now you may sée that the season of the yeare passeth, and the duke of Burgognie is in poore estate, returning from Nusse almost discomforted. The constable also, with whome the king your soue|reigne lord (I am sure) hath some intelligence, for fa|uour that your maister hath maried his néece, is not so sure a freend as he is taken for. And if all the world knew how I haue promoted him, and what I haue doone for him, they would little thinke, that he would so vntrulie handle me as he dooth. For I assure you, he is a déepe dissembler, & in continuall dissimulati|on EEBO page image 695 intendeth to lead his life, interteining all men for his owne profit. And although the king your mai|ster be vnsure of all his other promises, yet of one thing he shall be sure, that is, he shall be euer dissem|bled withall. And therefore I saie to you, and not to your maister, that he were better haue a peace with an old enimie, than the promises and familiaritie of a new dissembling fréend, which peace most pleaseth God, and is the thing that I most doo desire.]

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