[1] About the same time also, it fell so ill for the Eng|lishmen, that the prince of Wales was troubled with a sore sickenesse,The prince [...] Wales dis [...]|sed with sick|nesse. that had continued long with him, euer since his being in Spaine, by reason where|of his enimies were the more bold to make attempts against him, and dailie went about to allure and in|tise his subiects of the marches of Guien to reuolt from him, in somuch that the citie of Cahors,The citie of Cahors [...]|uolteth. and di|uerse other townes thereabout turned to the French part. Thus was the peace which had beene so suerlie made, and with so manie solemne oths confirmed, violated and broken, and the parties fallen togither by the eares againe in sundrie places, and namelie in Aquitaine, where sundrie armies were abroad in the fields, diuers sieges laid, manie townes taken, often incounters and skirmishes made, sometime to the losse of the one part, and sometime of the other, and the countries in the meane time harried and spoiled, that maruell it is to consider, and too long a processe it should be to rehearse the tenth part of such chances as dailie happened amongst them, so that it might well haue beene said of that sore & tumultuous time:

O quàm difficiles sunt sint pace dies.