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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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Compare 1587 edition: 1 Theſe two diſcomfitures notwithſtanding, the Scots ruſhed fiercely vpon their enimies, and fought with great manhoode a long ſeaſon, but in the ende, Robert Stewarde and the Earle of March perceyuing their people partly to ſhrinke backe, cauſed the retreate to be ſounded, in hope to ſaue their men by withdrawing into ſome ſicker place:The cauſe of the ouerthrow but this fleeing barke of the Earle of Marche and Robert Stewarde, brought the diſ|comfiture vpon all the reſidue of the Scots, for that battaile of Engliſh men that was firſt mar|ched with thẽ, came now with ſuch violence vp|pon the maine battail where king Dauid ſought, that within a ſhort while after, the ſame was vt|terly diſcomfited and put to flight.

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