[1] King Stephan hauing no pleasant voice of him|selfe, appointed earle Baldwin to giue an exhortati|on to his armie, wherevpon getting himselfe to an high place where he might be seene & heard of them, he thus began. All such as shall giue battell,

Earle Bald|win his ora|tion in the be|halfe of king Stephan.

Thrée things to be fore|séene by them that shall giue battell.

ought to foresée thrée things: first, that their cause be righteous: secondlie, the number of their men to be equall at the least: and thirdlie, the goodnesse and suf|ficiencie of them.