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Compare 1587 edition: 1 In the morning early before the battayle,The Earle of Dowglas chaſed. the Earle of Dowglas departed frõ the armie to deſerie the Engliſh hoſt, and to vnderſtande their force and order (if it were poſſible) but entring ſomewhat vnwarely within daunger of his eni|mies, he was chaſed, and that to ſuch diſaduan|tage, that he loſt fiftie or rather fiue hundred (as ſome bookes haue) of yong Gentlemen, and ſuch other light horſemen as he tooke forth with him, eſcaping verie narowly himſelfe alſo from beyng taken at the chaſe.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 In the meane ſeaſon, the Engliſh hoſt deui|ded likewyſe into three battayles, approached for|warde, and came wythin ſyght of the Scottiſh armie. Wherevppon Dauid Graham wyth a wing of fiue hundred well appoynted horſemen, gaue a full charge on the ſkyrtes of the Engliſh Archers, thinking to haue dyſtreſſed them:Dauid Gra|ham driuen backe. but he was ſo ſharpely receyued and beaten with ar|rowes, that loſing a great number of hys men, EEBO page image 351 he was conſtrayned to flee backe to the maine battaile, and that not without great daunger of beeing taken in his flight by ſuche as followed him.

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