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Compare 1587 edition: 1 This rumor paſſing from one to another, put the whole number in great feare.Marchant men authours of the rumor. It was firſt rai|ſed by certain marchant men, of whom there was a great nũber in Malcolmes armie, hauing more ſkill in buying and ſelling, than in any warlyke feates or enterpryſes.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Theſe at the firſt ſuing for licence to depart home, and could haue no graunt, beganne to la|ment their miſeries, in ſuch dolefull wiſe, that all the campe was troubled with the noyſe, inſomuch that euen the olde men of warre, and diuerſe of the Captaines were not a little diſcomforted and a|mazed with ſuch wailefull clamors.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Malcolme being aduertiſed hereof, thought not good to match in battaile agaynſt his fierce e|nimies with his people thus aſtonied through dread and terror,Malcolme ly|cenceth the moſt parte of his armie to depart home. and therefore gaue licence to the moſt part of his hoſt to depart for that time, and abode onely with certain bandes of his moſt faith|full friends neare vnto the water of Forth,Malcolme in|tẽdeth to ſtop his enimie frõ paſsing ouer the Forth. to ſtop his enimies from paſſing ouer that ryuer.

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