[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.