[1] He had no ſooner made an ende of his ſpeech,The battaile is begun. but that the Arrowes came ſo thicke from the Engliſhe Archers, that the Scottes beganne to looke about them, as it were to ſee whiche waye they might beſt eſcape by flight. But Wallace [figure appears here on page 390] perceyuing theyr fayntneſſe of courage, wyth lowde voice reprooued theyr cowardice, and with moſt pithie wordes exhorted them to remember theyr dueties, and to followe the example of him theyr leader, whome they ſhoulde perceyue to haue fully vowed to ſpende his lyfe in defence of his countrey.