Compare 1587 edition: 1 The Romains therefore being well appoin|ted with armure and broade Tergettes, ſlewe downe right a greate number of theſe Scottes and Pictes thus ſlenderly furniſhed, without re|ceiuing any great domage againe at their hãds, till king Galde appoynted his ſpeare menne to ſteppe foorth before thoſe archers and kernes, to ſuccour them, and therewith alſo the bill menne came forewarde and ſtroke on ſo freſhly, that the Romains were beaten downe on heapes, in ſuch wiſe that they were neare at poynt to haue bene diſcomfited,A cohort of Germains re|ſtored the Ro|maine ſide, neare at poynt to haue had the worſe. had not a bande of Germains (whiche ſerued amongſt the Romains) ruſhed foorth with greate violence vppon the Scottiſhe men where moſte daunger appeared, and ſo re|ſtored againe the faynting ſtomakes of the Ro|mains, whereby the battayle renewed on bothe ſides againe right fierce and cruell, that greate ruthe it was to beholde that blouddie fight and moſte vnmercyfull murder betwixte them, whiche continued with more violence on the Scottiſhe ſide than any warlyke ſkill,The night ſe|vereth the ar|mies in ſunder and parteth the fray. till final|ly the night comming on tooke the dayes light from them bothe, and ſo parted the fray.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 The Romains withdraw to their cãpe, & the Scottes to the moũtains.The Romains withdrewe to theyr campe, and the Scottes and Pictes with theyr confede|rates the Danes, Norwegians and Iriſh men, ſuche as were left aliue got them into the nexte mountaynes, hauing loſte in this cruell conflict the moſte parte of theyr whole numbers.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Cornelius Tacitus agreeth not in al points with the Scottiſhe Chronicles in a booke which he wrote of the lyfe of Iulius Agricola, where hee intreateth of this battayle. For hee ſpea|keth but of .xxx.See more hereof in the hiſtorie of England. thouſande men, (which he com|prehendeth vnder the generall name of Bry|tains) to be aſſembled at that time agaynſt the Romains, making no mention of any Scottes, Pictes, Iriſh men, Norwegians or Danes, that ſhould be there in their ayde.