Compare 1587 edition: 1 Agricola conſidering the naturall ſtrength of this mountaine with the ſite of an olde ruinous caſtel that ſtood thereon,Agrie [...]la buil|ded the caſtel of Sterling with the bridge. he cauſed the ſame with all diligence to be repaired, & a bridge to be made ouer the Forth there, by the which he paſſed with his whole armie ouer into Fyfe, and the day af|ter hearing that the king of the Picts was with|drawen into a caſtell thereby, ſtanding vpon an high mountaine cleeped Beenart,Moũt Bee [...]. he enuironned the ſame with a ſtrong ſiege, how be it his hoped pray was not as then within it, for Karanach king of the Picts, enformed of the Romains ap|proche, gotte him foorth abrode into the fieldes,Karanach a|ſayleth Ster|ling bride, which the Ro|mains defen|ded. and aſſembling his power purpoſed by might, to haue brokẽ the bridge which Agricola had made ouer the Forth at Sterling, but being repulſed by ſuche as were ſet there to defende the ſame, in his returne from thence hee was encountred by Agricola himſelfe, who being certified of this at|tempt of his enimies, had leuied his ſiege & was comming towardes them, ſo that both the hoſtes meeting togither in the fieldes, there was fought a ſore battayle betwixt them, though in the ende the Pictes were diſcomfited,Karanath in eftſoone [...] cha|ſed and their king the foreſayde Karanath chaſed vnto the riuer of Tay, where he got a boate, and eſcaped to the furtherſide of that water.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 By reaſon of this ouerthrowe, Agricola brought in ſubiection thoſe countreys, whiche lie betweene the waters of Forth and Tay,Fyfe with o|ther countreys brought into subiections of the Romi [...]e [...] as Fyfe, Fothryke, and Emedalle, and ſoiourning there all the winter following, he buylte ſundrie fortreſſes in places moſt conuenient for the [...]ee|ping of the inhabitaunts in theyr co [...]enaunted obedience, after his departure from amongeſt them.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 In the meane while the king of the Pictes kept him at Dundee, whyther refuſed vnto him a greate number of the Picter [...]de, ſuche as had eſcaped the Romains handes.Karanath cõ|forted by his nobles. Theſe comforted theyr king in all that they [...]te, willing him to be of good cheere, and to hope wel of the recouerie of his loſſes agayne, by haue good fortune and meanes that [...] to come, ere might long, promiſing to the [...]e|rance therof al that in them lay, aſwell for coun|cell as ayde of hande: And herevppon they tooke aduice, whiche way to worke, in ſomache that at length it was by great deliberation thought good to ſeeke for ſuccour at the handes of theyr aun|cient confederates the Scottes,The Pictes ſende for ayde vnto king Galde. and ſo incon|tinently there were certayne meſſengers diſ|patched with all ſpeede vnto Galde the Scot|tiſhe kyng, requiring him in that commune im|pardie to ioyne in league with hys auncient friendes the Pictes, agaynſt the ambitious and moſte cruell Romains, who ſought nothing els but y^e vtter ſubuerſiõ of the whole land of Albion, as was manifeſtly apparãt by their proceeding. EEBO page image 51 hauing alreadie occupied and wrongfully ſur|priſed a great part not v [...]che of the Pictiſh king|dome, but alſo of the Scottiſh dominimus, [...]|ding ſtil to go foreward in ſuch vnrighteous con|queſts, if by timely reſiſtãce they were not ſtaĩed.