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Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 About the same time, certeine of the Scots ran on hastilie to the kings standard of the horssemen (the which sir Andrew Flammocke bare) and laieng fast hold vpon the staffe therof, cried, A king, a king,Sir Andrew Flammocke. that if both his strength, his hart, and his horsse had not beene good, and herewith somewhat aided at this pinch by sir Rafe Coppinger a pensioner, both he had béene slaine, and the standard lost, which the Scots neuerthelesse held so fast, that they brake and bare a|waie the nether end of the staffe to the burrell, and in|tended so much to the gaine of the standard, that sir Andrew (as hap was) scaped home all safe, and else without hurt. At this businesse also the lord Fitz|waters,The lord Fitzwaters. both earle of Sussex and lord chamberleine to theQuéene Elizabeth. quéenes maiestie, capteine there of a number of demilances was vnhorst, but soone mounted a|gaine, scaped yet in great danger, and his horsse all hewen.Caluerleie & Clement Pa|ston. Hereat further were Caluerleie the stan|dard-bearer of the men at armes, and Clement Pa|ston a pensioner, thrust each of them into the leg with pikes, and Don Philip a Spaniard into the knée, di|uerse others maimed and hurt,Don Philip [...] Spaniard. and manie horsses sore wounded beside.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 By this time had the English fore-ward accor|dinglie gotten the full vantage of the hilles side,The placing of the English vantgard. and in respect of their march stood sideling toward the eni|mie: who neuerthelesse were not able in all parts to stand full square in arraie: by reason that at the west end of them vpon their right hand, and toward the enimie, there was a square plot inclosed with turffe (as their maner of fensing in those parts, as well as in diuerse other is) one corner whereof did let the square of the same arraie. The battell in good order next them, but so as in continuance of arraie,The battell. the former part thereof stood vpon the hils side, the taile vpon the plaine, and the rere-ward wholie vp|on the plaine.The rere-ward. So that the placing and countenance EEBO page image 987 of the English armie in this wise, they shewed them|selues in maner to compasse in the Scots battels, that they should no waie escape them: but how little able they were to doo it with power and number, you may easilie coniecture.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 Those horssemen that were so repelled, and in their comming backe vnorderlie brake their arraie from the residue, ran so hastilie through the ranks of the English fore-ward as it stood, that it did both dis|order manie, feared manie, and was a great incou|ragement to the enimie. The worthie earle of War|wike,The presence [...] the earle of [...]arwike [...] in| [...]aged the [...]. who had the guiding of this fore-ward, right valiantlie had conducted the same to their standing, and there did verie noblie incourage and comfort them with such chéerefull words, offering to liue and die among them, that doubtlesse his presence, de|me [...]ing himselfe in such manlike sort, stood the whole companie in great stead. Neither wanted there the chearefull diligence of those capteines, with whome his honor was furnished in that fore-ward likewise to incourage their bands, nor the worthie behauiour of other in the battell and rere-ward, euerie one ac|cording to his calling, shewing such proofe of his du|tie, as the most part certeinlie deserued to haue their names registred in the kalendar of fame, where no rust of cankered obliuion might fret out the remem|brance of their commendable demeanours: and therefore if anie among them should haue shewed anie lacke of courage, their dispraise had béene the more, sith by others they saw such worthie example giuen, and were to stand vpon this resolution, to haue harts hardened against all hazzards in a iust cause, whereof they hoped almightie God had vnder|taken the managing and direction, vnto whome they had committed the same; as the poet truelie saith:

Iusta Deo commissa Anglorum causa tonanti,
Audaces animosfecit impauidósque pericli.

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