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Compare 1577 edition: 1 The king being aduertised that the Frenchmen approched to fight with him, left the gun (bicause the maister carpenter vndertooke to weie it shortlie out of the water) & set forward, passing on by Tornohan, which he left on his right hand, and a little beyond pit|ched downe his field abiding for his enimies, the which (as he was informed) were not far off.The French armie appro|cheth, & their number. On the morrow after being wednesdaie, the Reliefe of the speares brought word that they had ascried the French armie comming forward in order of battell, to the number of eleuen thousand footmen, and foure thousand horssemen. Capteins of this armie were the lord de la Palice, the lord de Priennes, the duke of Longuile, the earle of S. Paule, the lord of Flo|ringes, the lord of Cleremont, & Richard de la Poole a banished man, son to Iohn duke of Suffolke. They came within two miles of the kings armie, and there the footmen staled, and came no further.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 But certeine of the horssemen to the number of thrée thousand came forward, and at the end of a wood shewed themselues in ope [...] [...] of the English ar|mie. And thus they stood countenancing the Eng|lishmen.The northern prickers plaie the men. Some of the northerne prickers made to them, and in skirmishing with them, tooke some of them prisoners. About noone the same daie, that va|liant Welsh knight sir Rice ap Thomas with his re|tinue of horssemen being departed from the siege of Terrouan came to the king, and streightwaies was sent to the earle of Essex, which with two hundred speares was laid in a stale, if the Frenchmen had come neerer. When they were ioined togither, they drew about the hill, hauing with them sir Thomas Guilford, with two hundred archers on horssebacke, meaning to set on the Frenchmen: which percei|uing that, and doubting least more companie had fol|lowed, they suddenlie drew backe, and ioined them with their great battell.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Then the earle of Essex and the English horsse|men followed them, till they came néere to the armie of France, and then scaled and sent foorth light horsse|men to view the demeanor of the Frenchmen. When the Frenchmen of armes were returned to their battell, then both the horssemen and footmen with|drew in order of battell, and still the English currors followed them for the space of three leagues, and then returned to the earle, making report to him of that they had séene, who then brake vp his stale, and came to the king, declaring to him how the Frenchmen were gone backe.The drie wednesdaie. This was called the drie wednes|daie; for the daie was woonderfull hot, and the king with his armie stood in order of battell, from six of the clocke in the morning till three of the clocke in the af|ter noone. And some died for lacke of moisture, and generallie euerie man was burned about the mouth with heat of the stomach; for drinke lacked, and wa|ter was not neere.

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