[1] Manie other noble men, whose hearts were good English, made like compositions, and some came in|to England, and others went to Calis, and bare great offices there: as the lord Duras, which was marshall of that towne; and monsieur Uauclere, which was deputie there vnder the earle of War|wike. Thus were the Englishmen cléerelie displaced and lost the possession of all the countries, townes,All lost in France. castels, and places within the realme of France; so that onelie Calis, Hammes and Guines, with the marches thereof remained in their hands, of all those their dominions and seigniories which they sometime [page 637] held in the parties beyond the seas. Whereby Eng|land suffered a partile but not a totall eclipse of hir glorie, in continuall loosing & nothing gaining of the enimie. ¶ Which recouerie was of great facilitie to the French, Abr. Fl. ex [...] sub He [...]. 6. for that where they came, they found litle or no resistance, but rather a voluntarie submis|sion & yéelding as it were with holding vp of hands, yer they came to handstroks. So that in such victories and conquests consisted small renowme, sith without slaughter & bloudshed hardie enterprises are not at|chiued. Notablie therefore speaketh Anglorum praelia of these bloudlesse and sweatlesse victories, saieng:
Delphinus totos (nullo prohibente) per agrosFrancorum transit, priùs expugnata receptansOppida: perfacile est populum domuisse volentem,Tendentem manus vltrò; nec clarior ornatGloria vincentem fuso sine sanguine regna.