Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 The earle of Surrie desirous of nothing so much as to ioine with the Scots in battell;The earle of Surrie retur|neth againe ouer the wa|ter of Till. after he vnder|stood that his sonne had informed him nothing but truth, he raised his field: and marching a thrée miles vpward by the riuer side, passed ouer his armie in two parts at two seuerall bridges, all at one time. King Iames when he saw this manner of his eni|mies, and perceiuing what their meaning was, by coniecture of their dooings, thought it stood not with his honor to sit still, and suffer himselfe to be forestal|led foorth of his owne realme: and againe, that it might sore diminish the opinion of his princelie pow|er, if he seemed to remaine as it were besieged with|in a fortresse, hauing more confidence in strength of the place, than in the manhood of his people: where|vpon immediatlie he raised his campe, and got an hill, which he doubted least the enimie should haue ta|ken before him.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 But by such diligence as he vsed, and by reason of the great smoke which was raised and spred ouer all the countrie, by burning of the litter and cabbins wherein the Scots had lodged, purposelie set on fire to the same intent, he was got to the place whither he intended, before the Englishmen knew for anie cer|teintie that he was dislodged, though they were as then within a mile of him. Thus king Iames kéep|ing the tops of the hils, the earle of Surrie with the English armie came to the foot of the same hils, and staieng there a while, for so much as he saw how the EEBO page image 828 hill to the which the Scots were gotten, was neither steepe nor hard to ascend,The valiant determination of the earle to incounter the Scots. he determined to mount the same, and to fight with the Scotish hoast yer they should haue leasure to fortifie their campe.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 Héerewith calling his people togither, he made vnto them a bréefe oration, declaring vnto them both what necessitie there was for them to shew their manhood, and what iust causes they had also to fight against those enimies, that against both the lawes of God and man had most cruellie inuaded the relme of England, in the quarrell of a schismatike, and one that was accurssed and excommunicated by the cen|sures of the church. The Englishmen kindled with desire to fight, the more thorough those words of the earle, required incontinentlie to be led foorth against the Scots, that they might shew what earnest wils they had to be reuenged; not onelie of new receiued wrongs, but also of ancient iniuries; for there should neither heigth of hill, nor anie other obstacle hinder them, but they would either returne with victorie, or else lose their liues in the paine.