[1] Although this admonition and wholsome exhor|tation might haue mooued the Scots to haue regar|ded their owne state, yet it litle auailed,The Scots reiect the be|nefit of this exhortation. as by the se|quele it appeared. For hauing both great promises made by the French, and now considering therewith the hurlie burlies and tumults that sproong vp in England, they continued in their obstinat purposes, not to yéeld vnto such reasonable motions as had béene offered, if they would haue shewed themselues conformable thereto, and not haue so stubbornlie de|nied to submit themselues to that which of right they were bound vnto. So that herein they shewed them|selues verie peruerse and wilfull, reiecting not one|lie the good aduise that the duke gaue them, but also not so much as once thinking what might insue to their great mischéefe vpon their refusall, and what be|nefit [page 1002] redound to them by admitting the offer: naie, they were of opinion and beléefe, that if so braue a bootie might befall England, it would be an occasion of great ruth and wretchednesse to Scotland: as one of late hath affirmed in his poeticall supposall:

—si haec praeda Britannis

Cederet, ô miserae Scotiae mis [...]rabile regnum,

Genti infelici nihil est nisiflere relictum.