[1] [2] In this meane while, king Philip hauing dailie word how the power of his enimie king Edward did increase by aid of the Easterlings and other na|tions, which were to him alied, and that his men within Calis were brought to such an extreme point, Fabian. that without spéedie rescue they could not long keepe the towne, but must of force render it ouer into the hands of his said enimie, to the great preiudice of all the realme of France, after great deliberation ta|ken vpon this so weightie a matter,The French king assem|bleth an armie Froissard. he commanded euerie man to meet him in their best arraie for the warre, at the feast of Pentecost in the citie of Ami|ens, or in those marches. At the daie and place thus appointed, there came to him Odes duke of Bur|goigne, and the duke of Normandie eldest sonne to the king, the duke of Orleance his yoongest sonne, the duke of Burbon, the earle of Fois, the lord Lois de Sauoie, the lord Iohn of Hemalt, the earle of Armi|nacke, the earle of Forrest, and the earle Ualentino|is, with manie others.