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You are here: 1577 > Volume 2 > Body Text: Section 2 of 2: THE HISTORIE of Scotlande.
Snippet: 1041 of 4298 (1577, Volume 2, p. 134)

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Theſe or ſuch like wordes were vneth ended,The battaile is begonne. when ſodainly the noyſe being rayſed on bothe ſides, the battailes ruſhed togither right fiercely. The Brytaines had the diſaduauntage of the place, being ſo encumbred in myres, bogges, and Moſſes, that they coulde not well ayde them|ſelues, nor handle their weapons to any pur|poſe. Yet did the battaile continue a long time to the deſtruction of ſuch numbers of men,A cruell bat|taile. that the riuer of Humber (neare vnto the whiche this field was fought) was ſo mingled with bloud, that the water thereof being all ouer coloured red, caried no ſmall multitude of dead bodies downe [figure appears here on page 134] into the ſea.

A craftie policie.

This was one of the Pickes.

In the middes of the fight, there was one with lowde voyce in the Brytiſh tongue, cryed out to the Brytaynes (of purpoſe prompted therevnto) that Arthure with other of the nobles on his ſide were ſlaine, and therefore it were but folly to truſt any longer vpon victorie, but rather were it wiſdome for euerie man by flight, to pro|uide for his owne ſaftie.

You are here: 1577 > Volume 2 > Body Text: Section 2 of 2: THE HISTORIE of Scotlande.
Snippet: 1042 of 4298 (1577, Volume 2, p. 134)

Compare 1587 edition: 1 This voyce wonderfully encoraged the Scot|tiſh men and Pictes, but the Brytaines were put in ſuch feare therwith,The Brytaines put to flight. that the moſt part of them immediately herevpon fell to running away.

You are here: 1577 > Volume 2 > Body Text: Section 2 of 2: THE HISTORIE of Scotlande.
Snippet: 1043 of 4298 (1577, Volume 2, p. 134)

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Other of them iudging this to be but a craftie and ſome ſubtile practiſe of the enimies deuiſed of purpoſe, as it was in deede, to diſcomfort them with, abode by it ſtill, manfully continuing in fight, till they were beaten downe and ſlaine in maner euery mothers ſonne.

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