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Compare 1587 edition: 1 Again, in conſideration how neceſſarie it was for euery man to fight without ſaynting, ſithe they were enuironed on ech part without meane to eſcape, he deſyred them, that if it ſo fel out, that they ſhould chaunce to be ouercome, (which as he truſted ſhould not come to paſſe) that in ſuch miſ|aduenture they woulde yet ſell there lyues dear|ly and not to die vnreuenged.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Thus hauing opened vnto them what pro|ſperous hap followed by victorie, and what dan|ger by the ouerthrow, he thought to haue ſuffi|ciently inſtructed them to put all feare aſyde, and to doe what lay in their vttermoſt forces to van|quiſh the enimies.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 The Kings on eyther ſide,The ordering of the battails. hauing thus ex|hortes their people to do their deuoirs, they array their battayles.

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