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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.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Acho diſpoſed all his beſt ſouldiers and whole force of his armie in the middle warde, for that he had knowledge howe the Scottiſh king was placed in the middeſt battaile of his people, wher|fore he ſuppoſed, that if he might ouerthrow and vanquiſh that part where the king ſtood, he ſhould eaſily then put the reſidue to flight.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 His wings (bicauſe he had not number ſuffici|ent to furniſh thẽ fully) were arayed more weak|ly in ſlender and thin rankes:The battailes ioyne. but yet at the fyrſt encoũter there was a tirrible fight betwixt them, [figure appears here on page 391] EEBO page image 292 eſpecially where the two Kinges fought: For they preaſſed ſtill with great violence on that part where they ſay any daunger, not ceaſſing to exhort and encourage theyr men to ſtande to the bargaine with manly ſtomackes,The valiancie of the kings. ſo that on eyther ſide theſe two kings playde the partes of right valiant captaynes.

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