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Compare 1587 edition: 1 Here both the armies ioyning togither,The onſet is giuen. a right terrible encounter enſued, but bycauſe the nighte [figure appears here on page 363] was at hand, before they began to ioyne, through want of light to ſee what was to doe, they were ſeuered in ſunder for that time:They were ſe|uered by com|ming on of the night. but remembring that the Moone would ſhortly ryſe, they determi|ned ſo ſoone as ſhe began to giue lighte, to renewe the battell againe.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 The battell is renewed.As ſoone therefore as the Moone began to ap|peare, they ioyned agayne with more malice than afore.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 The Engliſhmen foughte ſo egrely, that put|ting the Scottes abacke, and cauſing them to giue ground, they had wonne the Scottiſh ſtan|derts,Patricke Heb|borne relee|ueth the Scots a point to be ouercome. and ſo by all likelihood gote the vpper hand, had not Patrike Hepborne with his ſonne, and ſuch other of his company as attended him, come to the reſkew, by whome the fight was begunne afreſhe.

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