[1] [2] Thus the battailes beeing ordered on both partes,Two battailes ioine. forwarde they make one towardes ano|ther to begin the fight, the Scots (after yt the ſhot and throwing of darts was ſpent, and that they came to ioyne) kept off theyr enimies with long Speares of Iauelins, in ſuch ſort, that they were not able to come neare them: which diſaduantage Cornelius perceyuing, commaunded on highe that they ſhoulde with their ſwordes cutte thoſe Iauelynes in ſunder, and as he lyfted vp the viſor of his helmet, the better to exhort his people to the execution hereof,Cornelius was ſore wounded. he was ſo wounded in the face with a Speare, that he was fain to withdraw a|part out of the fielde. The Iriſh men ſuppoſing he had fledde, incontinently to ſaue themſelues, threw off theyr armor and fell to running away.The Iriſh ran away. Thus did the victorie encline to the Scottiſhe ſtandardes. There died but a fewe to ſpeake of in the battaile, howbeit in the chaſe there was a wonderfull number ſlaine: for the Scottes pur|ſued them euen vnto Dublin Gates Which Ci|tie the next day Gregorie beſet on eche ſide wyth a mightie ſiege.Dublin beſie|ged. There was gotte into this Citie at the ſame tyme a wonderfull multitude of peo|ple, what of ſuche as were receyued into it flee|ing from the battaile, as alſo of other, whiche were there aſſembled before, in hope of aſſured victorie and ſafegarde of their goodes. By rea|ſon whereof beeing thus beſieged, they beg [...]nne quickely to want vytayles, ſo that eyther muſt they of neceſſitie yeelde, eyther elſe by ſome iſ|ſue auoyde that daunger wherein they were pre|ſently bewrapped.