Compare 1577 edition: 1 Thus the Dolphin, perceiuing that it would no|thing auaile him to make anie further attempt a|gainst Bullongne, passed foorth toward Guisnes, & shortlie after through want of vittels, and sicknesse which sore infested his campe, brake vp his armie, and returned into France: so that the proud enterprises of the vainglorious and most insolent French turned to their owne great shame, as C. O. trulie saith:
Sic Galli in magnum cesserunt dedecus ausa.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 But shortlie after Christmas came downe an ar|mie of fourtéene thousand, vnder the conduction of monsieur de Biez,Monsieur de Biez cõmeth before Bul|longne with an armie. the which the six and twentith of Ianuarie incamped on the west side of Bullongne beyond the hauen, where they laie ten daies: but on the sixt of Februarie, the earle of Hertford, the lord admerall, as then lord lieutenant of the towne of Bullongne, the lord Greie of Wilton, sir Thomas Poinings & others, hauing assembled out of the ga|risons on that side the seas, to the number of foure thousand footmen, & seuen hundred horsmen, whereof an hundred or foure score were Albanoises, issued foorth of Bullongne about foure of the clocke in the morning, and comming to the place where the king had incamped during the time of the siege, they staid there, and put themselues in order of battell: and a|bout six of the clocke, it being then a low water, cap|teine Edward Breie, with three hundred shot, was appointed to passe ouer, and to giue the enimies an alarum in their campe.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 At which instant the trumpets sounded, and the drums stroke vp in the English armie, and here|wi [...]h they being diuided into three battels, and to ech one his gard of two hundred horssemen, beside the od hundred that attended as a defense to the residue, they shewed themselues to their enimies. The Frenchmen perceiuing this, packed awaie with all haste possible,The French|men dislodge out of their [...]. marching toward Hardilo in two battels. Wherevpon the English capteins leauing their footmen behind them, and taking onelie with them the horssemen, followed with all spéed after their enimies, and comming to the bridge commonlie cal|led pont de Bricque, which certeine English carpen|ters garded with a number of harquebutters, and foure small field peeces, had forced and repared the same that night: and so the horssemen finding it suf|ficientlie repared, passed ouer, and comming to S. Estienne, they found there fiue hundred Dutch hors|men, commonlie called Swart rutters, that were lodged there to kéepe that passage: but being surpri|sed on the sudden by the English horssemen, and sharpelie assailed, they were wholie distressed, and the most part of them taken prisoners, and there|with left with the followers of the armie, were af|ter slaine, bicause they knew not where to bestow them.