De Caleti et Guinae, oppidorum proximo hoc bello captorum, expugnatione, carmen longe doctissimum, cujus auctor is ipse est, qui & illius eruditiss. Epistolae ad Francisc. Guisiorum principem, proximè à nobis editae.

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Calais (and Guisnes), the loss of which was so memorably lamented by Queen Mary, was England's last foothold in France. This poem celebrates the loss, or rather gain, from the French point of view. This is the first edition, and the first issue, since another version exists, of 6 pages, with verses by Du Bellay and others added (Dumoulin 27). Dumoulin 8 includes the Epistolae ad Francisc. Guisiorum principem (as well as the first appearance of Du Bellay's Calais verses), of which l'Hospital was 'evidently' the author.