The King of England to the field to dare,
To bid him cease his spoyle, nor to delay
Gainst the French power his forces but prepare:
For that King Charles determin’d to display
His bloody Ensignes, and through France declare
The day, and place, that Henry should set downe,
In which their Battailes, should dispose the Crowne.
The King of Englands modest answer.
This newes to Henry by the Herault brought,
As one dispassion’d soberly (quoth he)