Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 Their gouernour and other the principall capteins that had brought them to the bargaine,The Scots flie and are sharplie pur|sued. tooke their horsses and fled amaine, which other perceiuing did quicklie follow, and with the formost of that crue their Irishmen, and therewith turned all the whole rout, cast downe their weapons, ran out of their wards, off with their iackes, and with all that euer they might, betooke them to the race that their gouer|nour began. The Englishmen at the first had found them (as what could scape so manie eies) and sharpe|lie and quicklie with an vniuersall outcrie, They flie, they flie, pursued after in chase so egerlie, and with such fiercenesse, that they ouertooke manie, and spa|red indéed but few, that when they were once turned, it was a woonder to see how soone, and in how sun|drie sorts they were scattered. The place they stood on like a wood of staues strewed on the ground, as ru|shes in a chamber, vnpassable (they laie so thicke) for either horsse or man. Here at the first had they let fall all their pikes, and after that,The enimies cast awaie their muniti|on and furni|ture the light|lier to flie and be gone. euerie where scat|tered swords, bucklers, daggers, iackes, and all things else that was of anie weight, or might be any let to their course: which course among them, thrée waies speciallie they made, some along the sands by the Frith towards Lith, some streight towards E|denburgh, whereof part through the parke there (in the walles whereof, though they be round about of flint stone, yet were there manie holes alreadie made) and part of them by the high waie that leadeth along by the abbaie of Holierood house; and the resi|due and most part of them towards Daketh, which waie by means of the marish our horssemen were worst able to follow.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 Sundrie shifts, some shrewd, some sorie, made they in their running: diuerse of them in their cour|ses, as they were ware they were pursued but of one, would suddenlie start backe, and lash at the legs of the horsse, or foine him in the bellie, and sometime did they reach at the rider also, whereby Clement Paston in the arme, and diuerse in other parts of their bodies otherwise in this chase were hurt. Some other laie flat in a furrow as they were dead, there|by past by of the Englishmen vntouched, and (as was reported) the earle of Angus confessed he cou|ched in that sort till his horsse hapt to be brought him.The earle of Angus. Other some were found to staie in the riuer, couring downe his bodie vnder the root of some willow tree, with scant his nose aboue water for breath. Some for lightnesse cast awaie shoos and doublets, and ran in their shirts, and some were séene in this race all breathlesse to fall flat downe, and haue run them|selues to death.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Before this, at the time of the onset, which the English horssemen gaue, there came eastward fiue hundred of the Scotish horsmen vp along this Fau [...]|side braie, streight vpon the English ordinance and cariage. The lord protector (as yée haue heard) most speciallie for doubt hereof, placing himselfe by the same, caused a péece or two to be turned toward them, with a few shots whereof they were soone tur|ned EEBO page image 988 also and fled to Daketh. But had they kept on their purpose, they were prouided for accordinglie. For one parson Keble a chapleine of his graces,Parson Keble one of the lord protectors chapleins. and two or thrée other, by and by discharged foure or fiue of the carts of munition, and therewith bestowed pikes, billes, bowes and arrowes, to as manie as came; so that of carters and other, there were soone weaponed about a thousand, whome parson Keble and the other did verie handsomlie dispose in arraie, and made a pretie muster.