When these sawe Paris loste, and cities moe beside,
And what in Fraunce and Normandie reuoltes had done,
They thought no longer subiect to abyde,
But sought occasion how they might by Frenche be won?
As of our losse reports did dayly to them run,
So with king Charles th’agreede when to betray the towne,
And force the English flee, or yeelde, or beate them downe.
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For why, the powre of Fraunce coulde not with mighty hoste
Performe, to wyn by force from vs th’assaulted towne,