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Specimens of English literature from the 'Ploughmans crede' to the ...

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1^6 XV. LORD BERNERS.[ (A) T/ie Sea-fight <strong>of</strong>f Sluys:\Of <strong>the</strong> batell on <strong>the</strong> see before Sluse in Flaunders, bytwene<strong>the</strong> kynge <strong>of</strong> England and <strong>the</strong> frenchmen. Ca. 1.Nowe let vs leaue som-what <strong>to</strong> speke <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>rle <strong>of</strong> Henaltand <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>duke <strong>of</strong> Normandy: and speke <strong>of</strong> Me kyng <strong>of</strong>England, .who was on //^e see <strong>to</strong> <strong>the</strong> intent <strong>to</strong> arryue inFlaunders, and so in<strong>to</strong> Heynalt <strong>to</strong> make warr^ agaynst <strong>the</strong>5 frenchmen. This was on mydsomer euyn, in <strong>the</strong> yer^ <strong>of</strong> ourlorde M.CCC.xl. al<strong>the</strong>nglyssh flete was departed out <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>ryuer <strong>of</strong> Tames, and <strong>to</strong>ke <strong>the</strong> way <strong>to</strong> Sluse. And <strong>the</strong> sametyme, bytwene Blanqueberque and Sluse on <strong>the</strong> see, w^assir Hewe Kyryell, sir Peter Bahuchet, and Barbnoyr : and10 mo than sixscore great vessels besyde o<strong>the</strong>r, and <strong>the</strong>y wer^<strong>of</strong> normayns, bydaulx, genowes, and pycardes : about <strong>the</strong>no/Tzbre <strong>of</strong> .xl.M. Ther.? <strong>the</strong>y were layd by <strong>the</strong> frenchkyng, <strong>to</strong> defend th^ kyng <strong>of</strong> Englandes passage. The kyng<strong>of</strong> England and his, came saylyng tyll he ca;?ze beforeI.:; Sluse: and whan he sawe so great a nombre <strong>of</strong> shippesthaX <strong>the</strong>ir mastes semed <strong>to</strong> be lyke a gret wood, he demau;zded<strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> maister <strong>of</strong> hisshyp what peple he thought<strong>the</strong>y were : he answered and sayd, ' sir, I thynke <strong>the</strong>y benormayns layd here by tho. frenche kyng, and hath done gret2o dyspleasur^ in Englande, brent your <strong>to</strong>wne <strong>of</strong> Hamp<strong>to</strong>n, andtaken your great shyppe <strong>the</strong> Christ<strong>of</strong>er :' ' a !' o^uod <strong>the</strong> kyng,'I haue long desyred <strong>to</strong> fyght with <strong>the</strong> frenchmen : andnowe shall I fyghte with some <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>;;/, by <strong>the</strong> grace <strong>of</strong> godand saynt George ; for truly <strong>the</strong>y haue done me so many25 dysplesurs tha\. I shall be reuenged, & I may.' Than <strong>the</strong>king set all his shyppes in order; <strong>the</strong> grettest before, wellfurnysshed with archers, & euer bytwene two shyppes <strong>of</strong>

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