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.
Compare 1587 edition: 1 On the other part, Oſtorius minding to trie the matter by battaile,Oſtorius co [...]th his Romaines. ſette his people in araye after the auncient maner of the Romaines, wil|ling them to conſider that they were diſcended of thoſe parents and auncetours whiche had ſub|dued the whole worlde: and againe, that thoſe with whome they ſhoulde now matche, were but naked people, fighting more with a certayne maner of a furious rage and a diſordered vio|lence, than with anye polityke diſcretion or con|ſtancie.