Compare 1577 edition: 1 In the meane time, king Iames beholding all the demeanor of the Englishmen, from the heigth of the hill,The Scotish kings thought at the view of the English armie. thought with himselfe, that there was offered him that daie a goodlie occasion of victorie, if he might come to fight with the enimies at such aduan|tage of place and number. And therfore, being hast|ned forward through the strenable force of destinie, or rather Gods ordinance, he commanded his stand|ards to be raised and spred, and euerie man to resort to his appointed place, that they might foorthwith in|counter the enimies, that presumed thus to séeke bat|tell. And héerewith turning him to the lords and cap|teins that stood about him, he spake vnto them ma|nie comfortable words touching the occasion offered them at that present, to gaine both a famous victo|rie, and to reuenge so manifold iniuries and displea|sures, as they had susteined diuerse waies foorth at the Englishmens hands.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 He had scarse made an end of his tale, but the sol|diers with great noise and clamor cried; Forward, Upon them; shaking their weapons in signe of an earnest desire they had (as then they shewed) to buc|kle with the Englishmen. Wherevpon, without de|laie, king Iames putting his horsse from him,King Iames and all the rest alight from horssebacke. all o|ther as well nobles as meane men did the like, that the danger being equall, as well to the greatest as to the meanest, and all hope of succour taken awaie, which was to be looked for by flight, they might be the more willing to shew their manhood, sith their safe|gard onelie rested in the edges and points of their weapons.The order of the Scotish hoast. Then was the whole armie diuided into fiue wards or regiments, to this intent, that the bat|tell wherein the king himselfe stood with his standard, might be inclosed as it were with two wings, on ei|ther side one. In the right wing, the earles of Hunt|leie, Crawford, and Montrosse, were placed as cheefe leaders thereof; and in the left were the earles of Lenox, and Argile, with the lord Hume, lord cham|berleine of Scotland, being men of great skill in warlike affaires, as was reported.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 Moreouer, in euerie band (almost generallie tho|roughout) there was a knight appointed for capteine and guider,French [...]|teins in the Scotish [...] and amongst them certeine French cap|teins, the which king Lewes had sent ouer into Scot|land latelie before, to traine the Scots in the practise of warres. The ordinance was lodged in places most conuenient; though by reason they marched downe the hill, their shot did small damage to the English|men comming vpwards towards them, and yet they bestowed it freshlie on either side one vpon an other. Héerwith sir Edmund Howard with his wing was got vp on the hill side,The battell is begun, and sir Edmund Howard in|countred with the earles of Lenox and Argile. with whome the lord Hume and the two foresaid earles of Lenox and Argile in|countered with such violence, that this battell of Scots with speares on foot on that part, beat downe and broke that wing of the Englishmen, in such wise that sir Edmund Howard was in maner left alone, and felled to the earth, that (had not bastard Heron come to his succours at that instant) he had béene slaine there without all remedie.