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Compare 1587 edition: 1 Thoſe that were ſente,The Scots are encamped on a hyll. finding where the Scottes were encamped, vppon the toppe of a mountain, not paſſing ſixe myles from the Eng|liſh campe, they returned backe to king Edward, and declared what they had ſeene and learned of the enimies doings.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 King Edwarde right ioyfull of the newes, cauſeth his armie to be deuyded into three bat|tayles, EEBO page image 327 and forthwith marcheth on towardes the place where his enimies laye. And comming about Noone dayes within ſight of the Scottes, he perceyued at length that the place whiche they kept was ſo ſtrong, what with the heigth of the ground, and thereto defended on the one ſide with the courſe of a Ryuer, that by no meanes they might bee aſſayled wythout great and manifeſt daunger.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 The Engliſh men in the ende, thought it beſt to chooſe forth a place to encampe in for ye night,The Engliſhe men ſent to the Scottes. and ſo doing ſent an Heralde at armes vnto the Scottes, requyring them to come downe vnto ſome euen grounde where battaile might bee gi|uen:The anſwer of the Scottes. but the Scottes refuſed ſo to doe, alledging that ſithe the Engliſhe men were three to one of them in number, it was no reaſon to wil them to forſake their grounde of aduauntage which they had taken and choſen forth for their own defence.

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