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Compare 1587 edition: 1 The Scots that were with the Erle of Mar, hauing knowledge of the ſmall number of theyr enimies, made no accompts of them, ſo that they neither tooke heede to their watche,The negligẽce of the Scottes. nor to any o|ther order for defence of themſelues, but fell to ſinging, dauncing, reuelling and drynkyng in moſte diſſolute maner.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 The Ballyol taking occaſion hereof, determi|ned to aſſayle them ye ſame night in their campe: and therevpon cauſing his people to make them readie to accompliſhe that enterpriſe, in the dead of the night he iſſued foorth of his campe, & com|ming vnto the water of Erne, paſſeth the ſame by the foorde, where one Androwe Murraye of Tullybarde had pight a ſtake of ſet purpoſe, in midſt of the ſtreame, to ſhewe them the way.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Thus hauing got all his armie ouer ye water, without any noyſe or dinne, ſo ſecretly as might be deuiſed, he entred the campe of his enimies, and brake through till he came to the tent of the Erle of Mar the Scottes general, before he was once deſcryed.

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