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Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 EEBO page image 810On the next daie in the morning, monie was sent to paie the souldiers their wages for their conducti|on againe into England, with diuerse gi [...]ts giuen to the lord Darcie, and other gentlemen; yet notwith|standing, he was highlie displeased: howbeit, like a wiseman he dissembled the matter.A shrewd traie begun vpon a small occasion. The same daie, being the fourtéenth daie of Iune, and fridaie, there chanced a fraie to be begun in the towne of Calis, betwixt the Englishmen, and them of the towne; by reason that an Englishman would haue had for his monie a loafe of bread from a maid that had beene at the bakers to buie bread, not to sell, but to spend in hir mistresse house. Edw. Hall. Howbeit the Englishman fol|lowed hir, as making proffer not to be denied, in so much that the maid perceiuing what he went about, cried out; A force, a force. Then was the common bell roong, and all the towne went to harnesse, and those few Englishmen that were a land, went to their bowes. The Spaniards cast darts, and the Englishmen shot. But the capteins of England, and the lords of the councell for their part, tooke such paine, that the fraie was ceassed, and but one Eng|lishman slaine, though diuerse were hurt: and of the Spaniards diuerse were slaine. Thus of a sparkle was kindled a flame to the spoiling of manie; which is no rare thing to see, according to the scriptum est:

Concitat ingentes flammas scintilla minuta.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 4 After this, vpon request made by the lords of Spaine, the lord Darcie and all his men the same night went aboord their ships, but Henrie Guilford, Weston Browne, and William Sidneie, yoong and lustie esquiers, desired licence to see the court of Spaine:The English men desire to sée the Spa|nish court. which being granted, they went thither, where they were of the king highlie interteined. Henrie Guilford and Weston Browne were made knights by the king, who also gaue to sir Henrie Guilford a canton of Granado, and to sir Wolston Browne an egle of Sicill on a chefe, to the aug|mentation of their armes. William Sidneie so ex|cused himselfe, that he was not made knight. When they had soiourned there a while, they tooke their leaue of the king and quéene, and returned through France into England.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 During which season, the lord Darcie made saile toward England,The lord Darcie retur|neth out of Spaine. and arriuing at Plimmouth, came to the king at Windsore, and so this iourneie ended. During the time that the lord Darcie was in Spaine, the ladie Margaret duches of Sauoie, and daughter vnto Maximilian the emperour, and go|uernour of Flanders, Brabant, Holland, Zeland, & other the low countries apperteining to Charles the yoong prince of Castile,The duchesse of Sauoie sẽ|deth to king Henrie for aid against the duke of Gel|ders. sent in the end of Maie to the king of England, to haue fiftéene hundred ar|chers, to aid hir against the duke of Gelders, which sore troubled the countries aforesaid. The king ten|derlie regarding the request of so noble a ladie, most gentlie granted hir request, and appointed sir Ed|ward Poinings, knight of the garter, and comptrol|ler of his house, a valiant capteine and a noble war|riour, to be lieutenant and leader of the said fiftéene hundred archers.

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