Compare 1587 edition: 1 King Alpine this whyle helde himſelfe in a caſtell, whiche ſtode vpon an hill, a little from Dundee,The encam|ping of Alpyn his armie. beyng nowe decayed, ſo that litle ther|of remaineth to be ſeene at this daye. Vpon the north ſide of the hille, there lyeth a greate large playne, compaſſed on eche ſide with mountains as then full of woodes and laundes, but now for the moſt part bare & without any trees or buſhes In this playne were the Scottes encamped.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Alpine beholding forth of the caſtell, how the Pictes approched to giue battayle, got him into the campe, & exhorting his people to ſhew them ſelues valiant, diſpoſed them in array.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 The Picts no leſſe deſyrous to fight thã their gouernours woulde haue wiſhed them,Raſhly the pictes begyn the battayle. beganne the battaile before they had commaundemente with ſuch violence, that the righte wing of the Scottes was ſore diſordered.