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Compare 1587 edition: 1 EEBO page image 317King Robert with great diligence cauſed his people to prepare themſelues readie to receyue the enimies,King Robert prepareth to receyue the enemies by battaile. though he was nothing able to watche them in number, deuiſing which way hee might traine them into the ditches before prepared.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 He commaunded through the armie that e|uery man ſhould on the next morow receyue the Sacrament of the Lordes bodie, throughe the which they might haue the better hope of victorie againſt the vniuſt inuaders of theyr Realme and Countrey.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 On the other ſide, the Engliſh men truſted that al things would proſper with them, euen as they could beſt deuiſe: for by one ſmall dayes la|bour they hoped to be Lordes of all Scotlande, and to diſpoſe of the landes and goodes of theyr enimies as ſhoulde ſeeme to them good and moſt for their owne auaile.

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