Compare 1587 edition: 1 When the two Kings vnderſtoode this, they haſted forth forwardes them, and were no ſoouner come within ſight of them, but that they made eche towardes other,The Romaine encountred by the Scottiſhe [...]hen & Pictes. and ſo encountering togy|ther, there was fought a ſore battaile with doubt|full victorie, for the right wings on eyther ſyde banquiſhed the lefte, the breaſtes of bothe the battayles keeping theyr grounde,Night pa [...] the battaile. the one not once ſhrinking backe from the other, tyl night ſeuered them in ſunder, but not without ſuche ſlaughter made on bothe ſydes, that beeing once parted, they made no greate haſte to ioyne agayne togyther: for as well the one parte as the other beeing thus diſſeuered, drew incontinently homewardes without abyding for the morning. Neither did they attempt any further exploite of all that yeare following.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 In whiche meane tyme Victorine ſent let|ters vnto Rome to the Emperour Marcus An|tonius Aurelius,Victorine ſen|deth leuen to Rome. who as then gouerned the Empyre, ſignifying vnto him in what ſtate things ſtoode in Brytaine: Further declaring that if conuenient ſuccours were not ſente in tyme, it woulde bee harde to reſiſt the [...]ous rage of the enimies, by reaſon of the ſmall truſt hee perceyued was to bee had in the Brytaines, beeing no leſſe readie vppon occaſion to make warres in recouerie of their libertie, than the Scottes or Pictes were too encroche vppon them.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 The Emperour vpon recept of theſe letters, thought in his minde that Victorine was not ſo valiant a Captaine as the caſe requyred, and that therevppon the Scottes and Pictes became the more enboldened to reſiſt,Victorine is ſent for to re|turne vnto Rome, and one Calphurnius ſent into Bry|taine to ſuc|ceede in his roome. therefore hee ſente for him home, appoynting one Agricola Cal|phurnius to ſucceede in hys roome, who was (as ſome haue lefte in wryting) the Nephew of Iulius Agricola, the moſte famous Cap|tayne of the Romaines that euer came into Brytaine.