Compare 1587 edition: 1 In like maner Lucius Antenous for his part exhorted the Romains and other his ſouldiours,Lucius Ante|nous likewiſe encourageth his folkes. to call to remembrance the victorious exploytes of their predeceſſours, and how that as then they ſhould fight but with a rude and barbarous peo|ple, running to battaile more vppon a furious rage and violent madneſſe, than with any diſ|cretion or aduiſed order, ſaying furthermore, that it lay nowe in their handes with no great adoe to EEBO page image 61 recouer that which through the negligent ſlouth of Cneus Trebellius was before loſt, whereby they ſhould attaine great honour and famous re|noume for euermore.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 By this meanes the armies on both ſides be|ing kindled with deſire of battaile, in hope of victorie,The battaile b [...]ginneth be|t [...]eene the Romaines and Albions. they drew neare togither, and began the fight right fiercely at the firſt with throwing and ſhooting of dartes and arrowes ſo thicke that one might vnneth ſee another.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 2 The place was more for the aduauntage of the Scots than of the Romaines, bycauſe they were compelled to fight as it were by companies and partes, by reaſon of bogges and mariſhes, with ſuch ſideling hankes on the ſydes that they could keepe none aray: yet all theſe impediments notwithſtanding, this battaile was fought ſo farre forth to the vtterance,A cruel fight. that in the ende after a wonderful ſlaughter on both ſides made, when theyr ſwordes and other weapons were ſpent, they buckled togither with ſhort daggers. Fi|nally the violent charge of the Scottes & Pictes, was ſuch,The romaines retyre. that the Romaines were conſtrayned to retyre, which their generall Antenous percey|uing, did what hee coulde to ſtay them, and to bring them forward againe, but as he was moſt buſie in the forefront to exhort them herevnto,Lucius Ante|nous is woun|ded. he was wounded with an arrowe, and therevpon departed out of the battaile, which gaue occaſion to diuerſe other of his companie to followe him,The romaines are put to flight. by meanes whereof all the reſidue fell to running away, and made towarde the next wood, there to ſaue themſelues as well as they might, thoughe ſome companies perceyuing that they could not reache thither without manifeſt daunger, cloſed themſelues togither and departed by an other way, which they tooke at aduenture, not know|ing towardes what partes they drewe, ſo that they lay al the night following within two miles of the Scottes and Pictes, who for that the day was in maner ſpent (before the Romaines were put to flight,) encamped themſelues in the ſelfe ſame place where the battaile was fought, and in the morning hearing that parte of their enimies were lodged ſo neare them, and knew not which way to draw, they ſent a number forth of theyr campe to fight with them, and to kil them if they reſiſted, or to bring them captiue to the king if they ſhoulde ſeeme willing to yeelde.