Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 On a daie as sir Thomas Poinings soldiours were warding in one of the trenches,Tiberio, that alter serued the king of England. an Italian se|cretlie comming forth of the towne, fetched awaie the said sir Thomas Poinings his ensigne; and not|withstanding the pursute that was made after him, he escaped and got into the towne with it, to the great displeasure of the whole campe. But as the enimies sometimes went awaie with the aduantage of their attempted enterprises, so ofttimes againe they paid for their aduenturing ouer rashlie aboue the com|mon price of the market.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 But here I cannot but lament the negligence vsed in that season: for there is not one English writer to be found extant, that hath written anie thing effectuallie of the exploits atchiued in that iornie;Negligence of English|men for not putting their valiant doo|ings in wri|ting. so as we are driuen to borrow of the aduersa|ries that haue written thereof, wanting other helps of our owne nation to furnish our booke héerin accor|ding to our wished purpose. But neuerthelesse, to giue occasion to those that yet liue, and can best doo it, to set forth hereafter a more perfect discourse ther|of, I haue thought it not amisse to recite in part what I haue read and learned of such things as then were accounted worthie of relation, and now like to be buried in the dimme booke of obliuion, vnlesse some fauourer of notable euents chancing in the as|siegement of those two townes, Bullongne and Muttrell, will put to his helping hand to report the same to posteritie.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Among other stratagems, one I remember,A stratagem of the lord Mountioie. de|uised and put in practise by the lord Mountioie, as thus. The enimies had espied a place of aduantage without the towne, where vnder fauour of the shot of certeine peeces of great artillerie lodged vpon some platforms or bulworks within the towne, they might lie without the walles betwixt the English|mens trenches and the towne ditches, and there co|uer themselues within a litle trench or counterscarpe made for the purpose, and out of the same be readie with their harquebusses to shoot at the Englishmen, so soone as anie of them should once shew his head out of the trenches, to the great danger of them that warded in the same.