Compare 1577 edition: 1 The herald declaring this message to the lord protector, pretended to come from the gouernour, to inquire of prisoners taken, and therewith to proffer honest conditions of peace. And after he had told his tale, then began the trumpetter, and said, how he was sent from the earle of Huntleie:

My lord my maister (saith he) hath willed me to shew your grace, that bicause this matter maie be the sooner ended, and with lesse hurt, he will fight with your grace for the whole quarell, twentie to twentie, ten to ten, or else himselfe alone with your grace man to man. The lord protector hauing kept with him the lord lieu|tenant, had heard them both throughlie, and then in answering, spake somewhat with lowder voice, than they had doone their messages.

Wherevpon they that were the riders by, thinking that his grace would haue it no secret, were somewhat the bolder to come néerer, the words whereof were vttred so expeditelie with honour, and so honourablie with expedition,The lord pro|tectors an|swer. that the standers by were mooued to doubt whether they might rather note in them the promptnesse of a singular prudence, or the boldnesse of a noble cou|rage: and they were thus.

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Your gouernour maie know, that the speciall cause of our comming hither was not to fight, but for the thing that should be the weale, both of vs and you. For God we take to record, we mind no more hurt to the realme of Scotland, than we doo to the EEBO page image 984 realme of England, and therefore our quarell being so good, we trust God will prosper vs the better. But as for peace, he hath refused such conditions at our hands, as we will neuer proffer againe: and there|fore let him looke for none, till this waie we make it: and thou trumpetter, saie to thy maister, he seemeth to lacke wit so to make this chalenge to me, being of such estate, by the sufferance of God, as to haue so weightie a charge of so pretious a iewell, the gouer|nance of a kings person, & then the protection of all his realms, whereby in this case I haue no power of my selfe, which if I had, as I am true gentleman, it should be the first bargaine I would make: but there be a great sort amongst vs his equals, to whome hee might haue made this chalenge without refusall.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 The earle of Warwikes request and message to the earle of Huntleie.Then quoth the lord lieutenant to them both, He sheweth his small wit to make this chalenge to my lords grace, and he so meane, but if his grace will giue me leaue,

I shall receiue it: and trumpetter bring me word thy maister will so doo, and thou shalt haue of me an hundred crownes. Naie (quoth my lords grace) the earle of Huntleie is not meet in e|state with you, my lord: but herald saie to the go|uernor, and him also, that we haue béene a good sea|son in this countrie, and are here now but with a so|ber companie, and they a great number, and if they will méet vs in field, they shall be satisfied with figh|ting inough: and herald bring me word if they will so doo, and by my honour I will giue the a thousand crownes. Ye haue a proud sort among you, but I trust to sée your pride abated shortlie, and of the erle Huntleies too: Iwis he is a glorious yoong gen|tleman.