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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.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Herewith vpon commaundement giuen on both partes, the battaile began right [...]ote, and for [figure appears here on page 40] a good ſpace verie doubtfull, till the practiſed knowledge of the Romaines vanquiſhed the fu|rious violence of the Scottes,Caratake ouer|throwne by the Romains. His Queene was taken. Pictes, and Bry|taynes: who being put to flight, fledde into the Mountaynes to eſcape the enimies handes, who purſued them moſt egrely.

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