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[...] ¶ During this triumph, much people of Picar|die and west Flanders drew to Guisnes, to sée the king of England & his honor, to whom vittels of the court were giuenin plentie, the conduit of the gate did run wine alwaies. There were vagabonds, plowmen, labourers, and of the bragerie, wagoners and beggers, that for drunkennesse laie in routs and heapes. [...] So great resort came thither, that knights and ladies, who were come to sée the noblenesse, were faine to lie in haie and straw, and held them thereof highlie pleased. From the court of the emperour, nor of the ladie Margarets court, nor of Flanders, Bra|bant, nor Burgognie came neuer a person to an|swer to the chalenge. By that it séemed that there was small loue betwene the emperour & the French king. Moreouer, monsieur Faiot capteine of Bul|longne with monsieur Chattelon, did their deuoir to haue taken the towne of saint Omer, of which dooing was thought no goodnesse to the emperour.]

Compare 1577 edition: 1 On mondaie the fiue and twentith of Iune, the king with the quéene remooued from Guisnes to Ca|lis where he remained till the tenth of Iulie,

King Henrie departed from Guisnes to Calis, a from thence to Graueling to visi [...] the em|perour.

[...] Hall in H. S. fol. [...].

on which daie he rode to Graueling, and was receiued on the waie by the emperour, and so by him conueied to Graueling, where not onelie the king, but also all his traine was cheared and feailed, with so louing ma|ner, that the Englishmen highlie praised the empe|rours court. [When the French king and his lords had knowledge of the meeting of the emperour and the king of England in the towne of Graueling, they were therewith grea [...]lie gréeued, as by manie things appeared. For as the Englishmen were in France disdained, and in their sutes there greatlie deferred, and had little right, and much lesse fauour: so from day to day still more and more began hart|burning, and in conclusion open warre did arise be|tweene the two realmes.]

Compare 1577 edition: 1 On Wednesdaie the eleuenth of Iulie,The emperor commeth to Calis to king Henrie. the empe|rour and his aunt the ladie Margaret duchesse of Sauoy came with the king of England to the towne of Calis, and there continued in great ioy and so|lace, with feasting, banketting, dansing and masking vntill the fouretéenth of Iulie.

Abr. Fl. ex I. S. pag. 927. Banketting house within the towne of Calis.

R [...]. Turpin.

¶ For the intertei|ning of these estates (the English lords and gentle|men displaced of their lodgings to serue the other and their traine) there was builded a banketting house eight hundred foot compasse, like a theatre, after a goodlie deuise, builded in such maner as (I thinke) was neuer séene, with sixtéene principals made of great masts, betwixt euerie mast foure and twentie foot, and all the outsides closed with boord and can|uas.

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