[1] [2] [3] There were on either part a number of tall men of bodie, chosen foorth of purpose by the capteins, for the good opinion conceiued of their hardie valiancie, & the battell betwixt them séemed long time doubt|full and variable, now one while fauourable to the one part,The king fighteth him|selfe right va| [...]antlie. and an other while to the other. The king himselfe on foot euen in the foremost ranke, fought right valiantlie, incouraging his people, as well by example as exhortation, to doo their deuoirs. Nei|ther did the earle of Surrie for his part faile in the dutie of a right worthie generall. But while the bat|tell was thus foughten in most earnest maner about the standards with doubtfull chance of victorie, the lord Howard and sir Edward Stanleie hauing van|quished the enimies in either wing, returned to the middle-ward, and finding them there thus occupied, they set on, in two parts seuerallie, with great vio|lence.