I tell no lye, so gastfull grewe my name,
That it alone discomfited an hoast:
The Scots and Frenchmen[635] well[636] confesse the same,
Els will the towne which they like cowards lost:
For whan they sieged Beauron with great boast,
Being fourty thousand Britaynes, French, and Scots,
Fiue hundred men did vanquish them like sots.[637]
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For while the Frenchmen freshly assaulted[638] still,
Our Englishmen came boldly forth at night,