Compare 1577 edition: 1 This notwithstanding, the duke still redoubled his forces with fresh companies, and continued so manie assaults one vpon another, that at the last charge, being most vehement of all the other, the Englishmen being tired, and greatlie minished in their numbers, by slaughter and bloudie wounds, were of fine force driuen to auoid,The English forced to auoid & the enimie entereth. & so after halfe an hours fight, the enimie entered. Which when the lord Greie beheld, he leaped to the top of the rampire, wi|shing of God that some shot would take him. When one that stood next him, by the scarffe suddenlie pulled him downe, otherwise the effects had well declared the earnestnes of the praier: for he was not yet vp a|gaine, when a canon shot grated vpon the same place from whence he fell. And thus verie narrowlie hée scaped the danger of that shot, which if it had hit him would (no doubt) haue wrought his dispatch. For what is the weake frame of a mans bodie to migh|tie forts and strong castels, builded of timber and stone, beside the iron worke therewith compact, of|tentimes redoubling the strength of the same? And yet these (we see by experience) ruinated, battered, and laid leuell manie times with the thundering shot of this dreadfull artillerie: an engine of no great anti|quitie, and not vsed among ancient warriours in former ages, but a late deuise of a Franciscan frier; pitie it is that euer he was borne to set abroch such a pestilent inuention, as the poet noteth, shewing also the vse and the mischéefous effect therof as followeth:

Tormenti genus est ex ferro aut aere coactum,

Quod Franciscanus frater reperisserefertur,

Vt capias paucis validissima castra diebus,

Quae vix cepisses armis toto prius anno, &c.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 But to proceed. The fight within the bulworke yet lasted, to the great slaughter of them that defended it. Herevpon my lord Greie presentlie called to mai|ster Lewes Diue, and others that were about him, to follow him to the gate. The maze was such, that besides his sonne maister Arthur Greie,Arthur Gre [...] now lord Greie. and now lord Greie, maister Lewes Diue, capteine Bricke|well, and halfe a doozen of armed corslets, not a man else did follow him. By this means the Englishmen were cleane driuen out of the bulworke,The enimie i [...] dastardlie all his victories notwithstan|ding. the enimie yet not daring to passe the braies, gaue them that es|caped good leisure to recouer the gate, where my lord Greie holding the wicket himselfe, receiued them in. Upon the taking of this bulworke, the souldiors of Whiteleies bulworke and the base court in dis|comfiture abandoned their charges, flieng to the ca|stell: so that more than the Kéepe and the bodie of the castell no part was free from the enimie. My lord Greie hauing receiued all his, caused the gates to be rammed vp.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 Thus were the cheefe bulworks and vtter lims of the castell of Guisnes obteined by the French, Ric. Grafton. on saint Sebastians daie, being the twentith of Ianu|arie, but yet not without great expense of bloud on both sides: for of the French part there were slaine in those assaults aboue the number of eight or nine hundred, and of the English not manie fewer: a|mongst whom the greatest losse lighted vpon those few Spaniards and Wallons that were come to as|sist the English at that present. It was now night:A trumpetter from the duk [...] of Guise to th [...] lord Greie. when a trumpetter came to the ditches side in the base court, & sounded a summons: who being called vnto & asked what he would, told that he was sent to my lord Greie by the duke of Guise, with offer of a parlée if it would be harkened vnto. The souldiors no sooner heard these newes, but forsaking the walles came all in rowt togither, & confusedlie speaking to their chiefteine the said lord Greie, praied him to har|ken to the message, & to haue consideration of their liues, which so long as anie hope remained, they wil|linglie had ventured. The lord Greies answer was, that he maruelled, either what causelesse mistrust of his caring for them was now come vpon them, or what sudden vnwoonted faintnesse of mind had so assailed them, as to cause them in such disorder to for|sake their places, and leaue the walles naked, and he willed them to returne to the same.