Compare 1587 edition: 1 The Pictes being not a little troubled here|with, diſpatched foorth a meſſenger with all haſte vnto Galde the Scottiſhe king, ſignifying vnto him the whole matter, and therevpon requyred him of ayde.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Galde hauing muſtered his people aſwell Scottiſhe as Iriſhe, eſſembled them togither to the number of .xl. thouſand perſons, what of one and other, and incontinently with al ſpeede mar|cheth foorth to come vnto the ayde of the Pictes, and ſo within a fewe dayes paſſing ouer the mountaine of Grambene, he arriueth in a val|ley beyonde the ſame mountayne,Galde king of the Scottiſh men commeth to the ayde of the Pictes. where he fin|deth the Pictes, Danes, and Norwegians, en|camped togither not farre off from the hoſt of the Romains.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Here taking aduiſe togither, and in the ende determining to giue battayle,The Scots and Pictes deter|mine to giue battayle to the Romains. king Galde (vn|to whome as before is expreſſed, the gouernance of the whole was committed) aſſembling togi|ther all the number of the confederates, made vnto them a long and pithie oration,Galde exhor|teth his people to higher manbelly exhorting them in defence of libertie, (the moſt [...] iewel that mã might enioy) to ſhew theyr man|ly ſtomakes againſt them that ſought onely is depriue them of that ſo greate a benefite.