Compare 1587 edition: 1 Aydan would not ſuffer his men to purſue to farre in the chaſe,The triũphant ioy made by the Scots and Brytons, vpon their newe vi|ctorie. but called them backe by the ſounde of a trumpet, who being aſſembled here|with about theyr ſtanderds, made ſuche ioye and triumphe, as greater coulde not bee deuiſed, what with dauncing, ſinging, and playing on pipes and other inſtrumentes, according to the manner in thoſe dayes.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 But as they were thus in the middes of their chiefeſt myrth, ſodenly appeared the Saxons & Pictes,The Saxons and Pictes. whiche were with Ethelfred & Brudeus, approching towardes them in good order of [...] tell, with whom were alſo the reſidue of the weſt Saxons, that had eſcaped frõ the late bickering.The ſoden feare of the Scots & Picts, after all their great ioy and triumphing. Wherevpon the Scottes and Brytons amazed with the ſight hereof, were ſodenly ſtriken out of countenaunce, in ſomuche that Aydan went a|mongſt them, and with a bolde countenaunce exhorted them to remember, how valiantly they had alreadie put to flight the other of theyr eni|mies, ſo that there was great hope for aſſured vi|ctorie of theſe likewiſe,Aydan exhor|ted his men to manfulneſſe. if they would now ſhewe the like mãly courage againſt them, as they had ſhewed before in aſſayling the other. Many o|ther wordes hee vſed in admoniſhing them to fight manfully, till the onſet giuen by the eni|mies, cauſed him to make an end.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 The Saxons layde about them ſo ſtoutly in the beginning, that they forced their aduerſaries,The Saxons fight ſtoutly. with whom they were matched, to giue backe. Neyther did Ethelfred fayle in that occaſion to encourage them to follow the aduauntage nowe thus gotten.Ethelfred.