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Compare 1587 edition: 1 The nobles moued with theſe wordes of their prince, began boldly to exhort their people to bat|tell. Incontinently wherupon roſe ſuch noiſe and raging fury through the army,The Scottes without order ruſh forth to battaile. that without mea|ſuring either their owne forces or their enimies, they ruſh forth vpõ thẽ without any order or good aray. Olauus & Onetus beholding the Seat [...] to come thus furiouſly againſt them, boldly encoun|tred them with arrayed battels. Wherupõ enſued a right terrible fight, with great manhood ſhewed on both ſides, nothing being let paſſe that might apperteyne to worthy captains, the Scots enfor|forcing themſelues to defend their countrie & aun|cient liberties, on the one ſide, & the Danes doing their beſt endeuor by valiãt hardineſſe to ſaue their liues & honors on the other.The Scottes put to flight. Malcolme is wounded. At length after huge murther & ſlaughter made on both parts, ye Scots were put to flight, Malcolme was ſore wounded, & had his helmet ſo faſt beaten to his head, that it might not wel be got of, yet was he conueyed out of the field in maner for dead, and kept ſecret [...] in a wood, til he was ſomwhat amended, and then got him into places out of daunger. The Danes ha|uing got this victorie, and gathered the ſpoyle of the field, returned to beſiege eftſoones the caſtell of Narne, with more force and violence than before.

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Compare 1587 edition: 1 This Caſtell in thoſe dayes was encloſed on eche ſide with the ſea, hauing one narrow paſſage as an entrie vnto it, made by craft of man in ma|ner of a bridge.

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