Compare 1577 edition: 1 As he was halfe vp the hill, the erle of Warwike was ware the enimies were all at a sudden staie, and stood still a good while,The Scots at a staie vpõ the sudden. so that it séemed to him that they perceiuing now their owne follie in leauing their ground of aduantage, had no will to come anie further forward, but gladlie would haue bin whence they came. The reasons were these. First bicause at that time, beside the full muster of the English foot|men, of whome they thought there had béene none there in field, but all to haue béene either shipt, or a shipping; then they saw plaine that the Englishmen were sure to haue the gaine of the hill, and they the ground of disaduantage out of their hold, and put from their hope: and hereto, for that their herald gaue the lord protector no warning, the which by him (if they had ment to fight it out) who would not haue presumed that for the estimation of their honor, they would little haue stucke to haue sent; and he againe, and it had beene but for his thousand crowns, would right gladlie haue brought? Well yet how so euer their meaning changed, finallie considering belike the state they stood in, that as they had left their strength too soone, so now to be too late to repent, vp|on a change of countenance, they made hastilie for|ward againe, and (as it séemed) with no lesse stout|nesse of courage, than stronglie in order, whose ma|ner, armour, weapon, and order in fight in those daies and also before (though now somewhat chan|ged as well as amongest other nations) was as in|sueth.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 Harquebutters had they few, and appointed their fight most commonlie alwaies on foot.The order of the Scots in warres both touching their furniture and disposition. They vsed to come to the field well furnished, with iacke and skull, dagger, buckler, and swords, all notablie brode and thin, of excéeding good temper, and vniuersallie so made to slice, as hard it is to deuise the better: here|to euerie man his pike, and a great kercher wrapped twise or thrise about his necke, not for cold but for cutting. In their araie toward the ioining with the enimie, they thrust so nie in the fore-ranke, shoulder to shoulder, togither with their pikes in both hands, streight afore them, and their followers in that or|der so hard at their backes, laieng their pikes ouer their foregoerrs shoulders, that if they doo assaile vn|disseuered, no force can well withstand them.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Standing at defense, they thrust shoulders like|wise so nie togither, the fore-ranks well nie to knée|ling stoope low before, for their fellowes behind, hol|ding their pikes in both hands, and therewith in their left their bucklers, the one end of their pike against their right foot, the other against the enimie breast high, their followers crossing their pike points with them before, and thus each with other, so nie as place and space will suffer, through the whole rankes so thicke, that as easilie shall a bare finger pearse through the skin of an angrie hedgehog, as anie in|counter the front of their pikes. Thus prouided, they (I meane the Scots) addressed themselues to incoun|ter inflamed with a heat of furious hatred, but not aduised whether the cause were iust or vniust, for the which they were vp in armes: which foolish mad|nesse the poet pointeth at, and painteth out, saieng:

Arma Scotus poscit, valida contendere vi vult,

Is nec habet pensi sit it aequum an prorsus iniquum.