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long to be unpunished." The Duke lost heart; the waged soldiers mutinied for lack of pay; Morton deserted the cause; Bothwell wounded Ormiston as he carried money from Croft, and seized the cash {160a}--behaving treacherously, if it be true that he was under promise not to act against the brethren.

The French garrison of Leith made successful sorties; and despite the valour of Arran and Lord James and the counsel of Lethington, the godly fled from Edinburgh on November 5, under taunts and stones cast by the people of the town.
The fugitives never stopped till they reached Stirling, when Knox preached to them.

He lectured at great length on discomfitures of the godly in the Old Testament, and about the Benjamites, and the Levite and his wife.

Coming to practical politics, he reminded his audience that after the accession of the Hamiltons to their party, "there was nothing heard but This lord will bring these many hundred spears.