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.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 The lord marshall notwithstanding, whome no danger detracted from dooing his enterprise, with the companie and order afore appointed, came full in their faces from the hill side towards them. Here|with waxed it verie hot on both sides,The incoun|ter is verie hot betwéene both sides. with pitifull cries, horrible rore, and terrible thundering of guns, beside the daie darkened aboue head with smoke of the artillerie, the sight and appeerance of the enimie euen at hand before, the danger of death on euerie side else, the bullets, pellets and arrowes flieng each where so thicke, and so vncerteinelie lighting, that no where was there anie suretie of safetie, euerie man striken with a dreadfull feare, not so much per|chance of death, as of hurt, which things though they were but certeine to some, yet doubted of all, assu|red crueltie at the enimies hands, without hope of mercie, death to flie, and danger to fight.