Compare 1587 edition: 1 Then commanded he his trumpets to [...] [figure appears here on page 176] to the battail, which the Scots began with ſuch a cheareful ſhoute, that the Pictes euen vpon the firſt onſet were ſo amazed,King Drusken enboldeneth his people the pictes. that if Druſken had not with comfortable words relieued their fain|tyng ſtomakes, the moſt part of them had fledde without any ſtroke ſtricken. But beeing encou|raged throughe the preſence of their kyng, ſhe|wing himſelfe with chearefull countenanuce a|mongſt them, and therewith exhorting them to ſtande by him at that preſent, there was fought a ryghte ſore and cruell battaile betweene them.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 The women that were amongeſt the Pictes, of whome there was no ſmall number, ſpecial|ly in the right wing,The women were ca [...]umber to the pictes. made ſuche a woeful noyſe when they behelde the men one kill an other, that they were a more encumber to the Picts thã ayd when it came to the poynt of ſeruice: by reaſon wherof, that wing was ſhortly beaten downe, and put to flight.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Kenneth with the horſmen diſordred the pictes aray.Whiche when Kenneth behelde, hee ſette in with his horſemen on the backes of the Pictes, now left bare by the running thus away of thoſe in the foreſayd wing: and ſo entring in amongſt them, diſordred their aray in ſuche wiſe, that by no meanes they were able to ayde themſelues, or come into any order agayne,The right wing of the pictes is put to flighte. ſo that in the ende they were fayne to throw down their weapons, and take them to their feete, thereby to eſcape the daunger.