They were enforc’d in most vnequall fight,
For loued life to vse defensiue hand
Against the stubborne bands of Cumberland:
Led by stout Herckley, who with bold assay
Of his drawne sword began a bloodie day.
64.
In mutuall slaughter, both the hosts do stand,
Earth trembling shakes beneath their trampling feet,
The singing shafts thicke loos’d on euery hand,
Flie to and fro, then hand to hand they meet,