Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 1491.Ye haue heard before, how the lord of Rauenstein, by the aid of Bruges & Gant, had taken the towne and two castels of Sluis, which he kept against his souereigne lord Maximilian, and getting into the ha|uen certeine ships and barks, robbed, spoiled, & tooke prisoners the ships and vessels of all nations that passed alongest by that coast, towards the mart at Antwerpe, or into anie part of Brabant, Zeland, or Friseland, and was euer sufficientlie vittelled out of France and Picardie. There was a little towne also two miles from Bruges towards the sea, called Dam, which was a bulworke to Bruges, and an hed|spring to Sluis. The king of Romans had attemp|ted the wining of this towne diuers times, but mis|sed his purpose;Albert the duke of Sax|onies policie to get the towne of Dam. till at length Albert duke of Saxo|nie, a great fréend to the king of Romans, by policie found meanes to get it.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 This duke feining himselfe as a neuter betwixt the king of Romans, and the rebels of Flanders, re|quired of the lords of Bruges, that he might enter peaceablie into their towne according to his estate, with a certeine number of men of armes, to com|municate with them diuerse matters of great weight, and sent before his cariages and herbengers to make prouision. They of Bruges were in no doubt of him, so that his men of warre entered in|to the citie in good order, and he followed. They that went before, inquired for innes and lodgings, as though they would haue rested there all the night, and so went foorth still in order asking after lodgings, till they came at the gate that leadeth directlie to|ward Dam, distant from Bruges a Flemish mile, which is called the bulworke of Bruges.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 The capteins and inhabitants of Dam suspecting no harme to come out of Buges, thought their freends (knowing some danger towards) had sent them aid, and so nothing mistrusting those that appro|ched their towne, suffered them to enter, and so was the towne of Dam taken by sleight, which could not be woone by open force. This chance sore displeased them of Bruges, for now could they haue no recourse to the s [...]a so that they must néeds fall into ruine and decaie. The duke of Saxonie thus hauing woone the towne of Dam,The duke of Saxonie sen| [...]eth for aid to king Henrie to win Sluis sent to the king of England, that if it would please him to minister anie aid by sea, hée would besiege Sluis by land. Wherevpon the king of England, vpon due consideration of the dukes motion (as he was wise enough in all his enterpri|ses, and no lesse fortunate in the issue of the same) would conclude nothing vpon the sudden, but (as he did alwaies) ruled his affaires by good counsell, like to the wise man commended in the holie scripture:

Gu. Hae. in Tob. 4. Consilio sapiens semper sua facta gubernat.