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Compare 1587 edition: 1 Incontinently wherupõ they rayſed their ſiege, & haſted forth to meet him with no leſſe courage, thã if victory were already preſent in their hands.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Shortly after, there came vnto them Heraldes alſo from Malcolme,Malcolm ſen|deth ambaſſa|dours to the Danes. to vnderſtand why they had thus inuaded his realm with open and moſt cruel warre, hauing no occaſion giuen by him or his ſubiects ſo to do.The Danes ſlea the Am|baſſadours. Who ſcarcely had done their meſ+ſage, but that they were ſlaine forthwith by cruel outrage of the Danes.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Malcolme being ſore moued to vnderſtand the law obſerued by all nations for the ſafetie of meſ|ſengers to be thus violated by the enimies, kept on his iourney with ye more fierce corage, til he came to a medowe a little beſide Killos, where he en|ramped for that night. Great noyſe and clamour was heard throughout the armie, euerie man be|ing deſirous of battaile, to reuenge the iniuries done by the Danes againſt their friends & coun|trey men: notwithſtanding on the morrow when they ſawe their enimies in farre greater number, and in better order than euer had bin ſeene by any of them before that time,The Scottes through fear [...] are aſtonied. their hart began to waxe faint hauing greater care which way to ſaue their own liues, thã to giue the onſet vpõ their enimies.

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