[1] [2] The French king receiued them verie honorablie, and banketted them right sumptuouslie, shewing to them iusts and Martiall pastimes, by the space of thrée daies togither, in the which iusts the king him|selfe, to shew his courage and actiuitie to the Eng|lishmen, manfullie brake speares and lustilie tourni|ed. When the triumph was ended, the English am|bassadors, hauing a time appointed them to declare their message admitted to the French kings pre|sence, required of him to deliuer vnto the king of England the realme and crowne of France, with the entier duchies of Aquiteine, Normandie and An|iou, with the countries of Poictiou and Maine. Ma|nie other requests they made: and this offered with|all, that if the French king would without warre and effusion of christian bloud, render to the king their maister his verie right & lawfull inheritance, that he would be content to take in mariage the la|die Katharine, daughter to the French king, and to indow hir with all the duchies and countries before rehearsed: and if he would not so doo, then the king of England did expresse and signifie to him, that with the aid of God, and helpe of his people, he would re|couer his right and inheritance wrongfullie with|holden from him, with mortall warre, and di [...]t of sword. Abr. Fl. out of In Ang [...]. c [...]p. sub He [...]. [...]. ¶This in effect dooth our English poet com|prise in his report of the occasion, which Henrie the [page 547] fift tooke to arrere battell against the French king: putting into the mouthes of the said king of Eng|lands ambassadors an imagined speech, the conclusi|on whereof he maketh to be either restitution of that which the French had taken and deteined from the English, or else fier and sword. His words are these,

—raptum nobis aut redde Britannis,

Aut ferrum expectes, vltrices insuper ignes.