Compare 1587 edition: 1 Caratake thus furniſhed with an armie,The ſtrength of the place where Cara|take was en|camped. Of this matter ye may reade more in Eng|lande. choſe forth a ſtrong place to lodge in, fenced on the one ſide with the courſe of a deepe foordleſſe Ryuer, and on the other ſides it mighte not bee appro|ched vnto for the ſteepeneſſe of the cragges and ſuch fencing as they had made with great ſto|nes, in places where there was any eaſie way to enter.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 All ſuche women as were ſomewhat ſtept in age, and came thither with them,Women en|camped. in greate numbers, were by Caratake placed on eyther ſyde hys battayles, both as well to encourage the men to doe valiauntly wyth ſhowting and hallowing vnto them,Women pla|ced in order of battayle. as alſo to aſſayle the Ro|maines with ſtones as they ſhoulde approche. Other ſuche as were yong and luſtie, were EEBO page image 40 appoynted to keepe aray amongeſt the men to fight in the battaile.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Caratake and his Captaynes exhort their men to fight.Caratake hauing thus ordered his fielde, and hearing that Oſtorius was come to giue battail, he exhorted his people to ſticke to it like men, and ſo in ſemblable wiſe did all his Captaynes and Sergeantes of the bandes, going from ranke to ranke to encourage their Souldiers, declaring howe that thys was the armie that muſt eyther bring libertie or thraldome to them and theyr po|ſteritie for euer.