Compare 1577 edition: 1 But the king, remembring what had béene told to his herald by the French K. how he should be dissem|bled with, perceiued the French kings words to be too true, and therefore thought it more sure to heare the faire words of the constable and the duke, than to giue credit to their vntrue and deceitfull dooings. The Englishmen returned vnto their campe in a great chafe towards the constable; and the next daie to increase their displeasure,The duke o [...] Burgognie [...]eparteth. an other corosiue was ministred, that smarted sorer. For duke Charles of Burgognie tooke his leaue suddenlie of king Ed|ward, alledging that he must néed [...] see his armie in Artois, promising shortlie with all his puissance to returne againe to the great commoditie of them both. This departing much troubled the king of Eng|land, bicause he looked for no such thing; but thought rather that he should haue had the duke his continu|all fellow in armes: and therefore this dissembling and vnstedfast working caused the king to thinke that he neuer thought, and to doo that he neuer in|tended.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 The French king in this meane while had assem|bled a mightie power; ouer the which he had made monsieur Robert de Estoutuile capteine, whome he sent to Artois, to defend the frontiers there against the king of Englands entrie, and he himselfe tarried still at Senlis: but though he shewed countenance thus of warre, yet inwardlie desirous of peace, ac|cording to the aduise giuen him by the English he|rald, he caused a varlet or yeoman (as I may call him) to be put in a coat armour of France, which for hast was made of a trumpet baner. For king Lewes was a man nothing precise in outward shewes of honor, oftentimes hauing neither officer of armes, trumpet in his court, nor other roiall appurtenances belonging to the port of a prince, which should be glo|rious and replenished with pompe, as the poet saith:

Regia mirifici fulgent insignia regis.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 This counterfeit herald, being throughlie instruc|ted in his charge, was sent to the king of England,A messenger sent to the king of En|gland. and so passing foorth: when he approched the English campe, he put on his coat of armes, & being espied of the outriders, was brought to a tent, where the lord Howard and the lord Stanleie were at dinner, of whome he was courteouslie receiued, and by them conueied to the kings presence, vnto whom he decla|red his message so wittilie, that in the end he obtei|ned a safe conduct for one hundred horsses, for such persons as his maister should appoint to meet, as ma|nie to be assigned by king Edward in some indiffe|rent place betwéene both armies, to haue a like safe conduct from his said maister, as he receiued from him. Abr. Fl. ex Edw. Hall. fol. Ccxxix, c [...]xxx. ¶The words of which herald are woorth the no|ting, reported in writers as followeth.