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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.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 But king Robert all the night before the bat|taile tooke little reſt, hauing greate care in hys mynde for the ſuretie of his armie, one while re|uoluing in his conſideration this chaunce, and an other while that, yea and ſometymes he fell to de|uout contemplation,Saint Phillane making his prayer to God and Saint Phillane, whoſe arme as it was ſet and encloſed in a ſiluer caſe, he ſuppoſed had bene the ſame time within his tent, truſting the bet|ter fortune to follow by preſence thereof.

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