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.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Brudeus with his Picts likewiſe made great ſlaughter in that wing of the Scottes,Brudeus king of the Pictes maketh ſlaugh+ter of the Scots. with the whiche hee encountred, ſo that finally the ſame Scottes perceyuing the Brytons beaten downe and ſore diſtreſſed on their ſide, fell through diſ|comfort thereof to renning away.The Scottes runne away.