Where's now their victor vaward wing, Where Huntly, and where Home?
You that are old consider not the capacities of us that are young; you do measure the heat of our livers with the bitterness of your galls; and we that are in the vaward of our youth, must confess, are wags too.
He, being in the vaward plac'd behind With purpose to relieve and follow them- Cowardly fled, not having struck one stroke; Hence grew the general wreck and massacre.
My Lord, most humbly on my knee I begge The leading of the Vaward King.
As I guesse Martius, Their Bands i'th Vaward are the Antients Of their best trust: O're them Auffidious, Their very heart of Hope Mar.
Goe one of you, finde out the Forrester, For now our obseruation is perform'd; And since we haue the vaward of the day, My Loue shall heare the musicke of my hounds.
And at such time as the said lord admiral shall come to an anchor, all the ships of the vaward shall likewise come to an anchor, as near unto his ship as they may conveniently.
Thai maid enbuschement all the nycht, And quhen the sone wes schynand brycht, Thai saw in battale cum arayit The vaward with baner displayit, 48 And syne soyn the remanand Thai saw weill neir behynd cumand.
Dowglas the vaward he can ma; 560 The reirward maid the Erll Thomas, For chiftane of the host he was.
The vaward had the Erll Thomas, And in the rerward Schir Edward was.
And to the Erll Thomas, perfay, 305 He gaf the vaward in leding; For in his nobill governyng And in his hye chevelry Thai assoueryt rycht soveranly.
And to the lord Dowglas gaf he 400 The vaward for to leid and steir; All haill the strangeris with him weir, And the gret mastir of Saint Jak The tothir battell gert he tak.
The Duke of Yorke soe dread The eager vaward led; With the maine Henry sped Amongst his hench men.
Stanza 190: The English Vaward and maine Battaile charge the French both at once.
Of their Vawardthey made a forelorne reckoning, and the like did the Vaward of them.
The Vaward consisted chiefly of battle-axes and pikes.
The rudest of the Souldiers did boldly vpbraid this infortunitie to the King; one asked him where his Vaward was, where were his wings, where were the residue of his battell, and Rereward.
When the vawardbegan to shrinke, the rereward also brake order, and fled, but the Englishmen pursued them so fast, that they could not escape, but were ouertaken and slaine in great numbers.
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