Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 On the other part, the lord Dacres watching to aid where need appeered,Thus hath Iouius, al|though Hall saith, that the lord Dacres stood still all day vnfough|ten with. came in on the sides of the Scots, & gaue a charge on them with his horssemen, wherby sir Edmund Howard being somewhat relie|ued, escaped to the English vant-gard, which was led (as before is mentioned) by his brother, lord How|ard, who being now also got aloft on the hill, preassed still forward to renew the battell, & to succour those whome he saw put to the worse, so that thereby they tooke new courages, & laid about them againe. Here|with the earles of Crawford & Montrosse came with their battell of speares also on foot, and incountring with the said lord Howard, after sore fight on both sides continued, with more malicious hatred than force of the parties, both the said earles were slaine,The Scots put to the worsse in the right wing. besides a great number of other; the whole battell which they led being put to flight and chased out of the field, maimed, wounded, and slaine. And though they did what they could to the vttermost resistance, in hope to haue bathed their blades in English blood; yet the contrarie came to passe, as in stories is left recorded, to the honour of the English; namelie:

Sustinet inflictos duris vmbonibus ictus,

Imbuit & gladios manante cru [...]re Britannus.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 On the left hand at the same instant,Sir Edw [...]r [...] Stanlie and his archers breake the Scots arr [...]. sir Edward Stanlie hauing begun to incounter with the Scots on that side, forced them to come downe into a more euen ground; and brought to that point with such in|cessant shot of arrowes as his archers bestowed a|mongst them, that to auoid the danger of that sore and sharpe storme, the Scots were constreined to breake their arraie, & to fight not closed togither in order of battell, but insunder one separated from an|other, so that their standards began to shrinke here and there. Which thing when sir Edward Stanleie perceiued, foorthwith bringing about thrée bands which he had kept in store for such like purpose; he in|uaded the open sides of his enimies by a fresh onset, and put them in such disorder, that they were not able anie longer to abide the violence of the Englishmen mightilie preassing vpon them: so that taking them|selues to flight, and running headlong downe the stiepe descent of the mounteine,The left wing of the Scots is dis|comfited. they escaped to the woods and there saued themselues. But the earles of Argile and Lenox, dooing what they could to staie their people from running awaie, were slaine in the same place.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 In the meane time, the king, who a little before had ioined with the earle of Surreie, perceiuing that the wings of his battell were distressed, and that his e|nimies began to inclose him on ech side, he bashed EEBO page image 829 nothing at the matter,The Scotish kings magna|nimitie, but with assured countenance exhorted those that were about him to sticke to him, and to remember their worthie ancestors, in commit|ting nothing that might anie waies foorth sound to their reproch. And herewith rushing against his eni|mies, a new battell more egre than the first began to arise;A sore [...]ight. for that battell being well appointed and armed passed litle for the Englishmens arrowes, in so much that persing the earles battell, they entred well néere so farre within the same, that they were at point to haue ouerthrowne his standards.