Compare 1577 edition: 1 But to leaue Calis in the present state, you shall vnderstand, that so soone as this duke of Guise (con|trarie to all expectation) had in so few daies gained this strong towne of Calis (afore thought impreg|nable) and had put the same in such order as best sée|med for his aduantage, proud of the spoile, and pres|sing forward vpon his good fortune, without giuing anie long time to the residue of the guides or cap|teines of the forts there, to breath vpon their busi|nesse,The duke of Guise mar|cheth to the fort and town of Guisnes. the 13 daie of the said moneth being thursdaie, with all prouision requisite for a siege, marched with his armie from Calis, vnto the towne and fort of Guisnes, fiue miles distant from thence. Of which towne and castell at the same time there was cap|teine a valiant baron of England,The L. Greie capteine of Guisnes. called William lord Greie of Wilton, who not without cause sus|pecting a siege at hand, and knowing the towne of Guisnes to be of small force, as being large in com|passe, without walles or bulworks, closed onlie with a trench, before the Frenchmens arriuall had caused all the inhabitants of the towne to auoid, and so ma|nie of them as were able to beare armes he caused to retire into the castell, which was a place well forti|fied with strong and massie bulworks of bricke, ha|uing also an high and mightie tower, of great force and strength, called the Kéepe.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 The towne being thus abandoned, the Frenchmen had the more easie approch to the castell, who thinking to find quiet lodging in those vacant houses, entred the same without any feare. And being that night at their rest (as they thought) a chosen band of souldiors appointed by the lord Greie,The L. Greie taketh the French at a sléepie aduan|tage. issued out by a posterne of the said castell, and slue no small number of their sleepie ghests, & the rest they put out of their new lod|gings, and maugre the duke and all the French po|wer, consumed all the houses of the towne with fire. That notwithstanding, the said duke with all dili|gence began his trenches. And albeit the shot of the great artillerie from the castell was terrible, & gaue him great impeachment: yet did he continue his worke without i [...]termission, and for examples sake wrought in his owne person as a common pioner or labourer. So that within lesse than thrée daies, Rabutine. he brought to the number of fiue & thirtie batterie pée|ces, hard to the brim of the castell ditch, to batter the same on all sides, as well foorthright as acrosse. But his principall batterie he planted against the stron|gest bulworke of all, called Marie bulworke, thin|king by gaining of the stronger to come more easi|lie by the weaker.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 On mondaie morning therefore by breake of the daie, they had laid two battries to the said bulworke,Batterie [...]aid to the Marie bulworke. thirtéene canons in the one, and nine in the other, with which they plied it so well, as that by noone they had not onelie dismounted their counter batterie within, but also cleane cut awaie the hoope of bricke off the whole forefront of their bulworks, whereof the filling being but of late digged earth, did crimble awaie. Which the enimie finding about two of the clocke in the same afternoone, sent fortie or fiftie for|lorne boies with swords and targets to view and assaie the breach. The ditch at that place before the batterie was not foure and twentie foot broad, now assuredlie not a dozzen, nor in deapth aboue a mans knées, wherefore with small adoo they came to the breach, and with as little paine came vp the same, the clime was so easie; from whence hauing dischar|ged certeine pistols vpon the Englishmen, and re|ceiued a few pushes of the pike, they retired. And making report of the easinesse of the breach, strait a band or two of Gascoigns (as it was thought) threw themselues into the ditch, and vp they came. Then a little more earnestly the Englishmen leaned to their tackling, their flankers walked, their pikes, their culuers, their pots of wild fire were lent them, the harquebush saluted them, so as tollie maister Gas|coigne was set downe with more hast than he came vp with good spéed: and so ended mondaies worke,The Gas|coignes put backe with more hast than they came vp with good spéed. sauing that vpon the retire from the assalt, they gaue seuen or eight such terrible tires of batterie, as tooke cleane away from them within the top of their vau|mure and maunds, leauing them all open to the ca|nons mouth. Wherby surelie but for night that came on, the Englishmen had beene forced to haue aban|doned the place.