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Compare 1587 edition: 1 Camus likewiſe exhorted his people,Camus exhor|teth his Danes not v|ſing many woords, but yet pithie, deſiring thẽ to remember how it behoued them either to winne immortall fame by victorie, either els to die with miſerie in an vncouth lande, by the hand of their moſt fierce and cruell enimies.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Herewith Malcolme enbatayling his people, brought them foorth ſtrongly raunged in good order to encoũter the Danes, which likewiſe ap|proched towards him in good array of battell, his harte was filled the more with hope of victorie, for that he had tried ſundry times before ye force of the enimies in diuers cõflicts & encoũters.The nature of valiaunt hartes and noble ſto|makes. For ſuch is the nature of noble & valiãt ſtomakes, the more experience they haue in honorable enterpri|ſes, the more are they kindled in deſire to ſhewe their prowes in famous actes & worthy attẽpts.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 The armies herevpon on both ſides, fiercely ruſhing togither,A bloudy ba|tayle. began the battell right cruell & terrible, continuyng certaine houres with ſuche bloudſhed, that the riuer of Lochtee, ranne with a purple hue downe into the Almayne ſeas.

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