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Compare 1587 edition: 1 The Engliſh men to reuenge the diſpleaſure done by the Earle of Dowglas at Pennyre, ray|ſed a great army,The Engliſh men inuade the Scottiſh borders. and came with the ſame ouer Sulway, & inuading ye Scottiſh borders on that ſide moſt cruelly, ſpared neither fire nor ſworde.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 In the meane time, the Scots gathered to the number of fiue .C. men, and ſtood at a ſtrayt, tyll the Engliſh men ſhould come to paſſe by them, & then with ſuch huge noyſe and clamor they ſet on the Engliſh men, that in giuing backe there was foure .C. of them ſlaine,Engliſh men ſlaine and drowned. & a great number of the reſidue for haſte drowned in the water of Sul|way, [figure appears here on page 358] and hereby was all the bootie of cattaile and goodes recouered againe by the Scottes, and the moſt part of it reſtored to the owners.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Ambaſſadours frõ the French king.Charles the ſixt as then French king, hearing of ſuche proſperous aduentures dayly chauncing to the Scottes, ſent ouer his Ambaſſadours vnto king Robert, exhorting him to followe his good fortune and occaſion thus offered, to reuenge old iniuries agaynſt the Engliſhe men, nowe that their heartes ſeemed to fayle them through loſſes ſuſteyned diuerſe wayes of late at the Scottiſhe mens handes.

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