Scene 4: Gloucester's charge
To the astonishment of the English army the Scots quickly finished their prayers and started to advance towards them. In the English camp a row broke out between Edward and the Earl of Gloucester as Gloucester told him that the men needed some rest.
As the Vita Edwardi Secundi describes;
鈥淏ut the king, growing very heated with him, charged him with treachery and deceit.鈥 "Today," said the Earl, "it will be clear that I am neither a traitor nor a liar," and at once prepared himself for battle.鈥
The young Gloucester, one of the most powerful men in England was enraged by this. He jumped on his horse and rode straight at the Scots.
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