Then forth is gone Alexander Ratcliffe, knight;
With him he leads men thousand three;
But or ere three dayes were come to an end,
The Ffrenchmen away did flee.
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Then King Henery planted three hundred Englishmen
That in the citye shold abyde and bee:
Alexander Ratcliffe, he wold haue mad him gouernour there,
But he forsooke it certainelye,
And made great intreatye to our king